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Home Support FAQs MARS How does MARS handle missing values?

How does MARS handle missing values? Featured

MARS automatically creates a missing value indicator – a dummy variable – that becomes one of the available predictors. These dummy variables represent the absence or the presence of data for the predictor variables in focus.