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  "abstract": "Mental health disorders such as anxiety, depression, psychosis, and substance-related diseases are increasingly being recognized as critical public health problems in Pakistan, and data-driven methods are being used for clinical research and decision-making processes. However, incomplete data recording and reporting practices are often responsible for missing values in mental health data sets, which can significantly affect the reliability of machine learning models. This paper aims to evaluate the effectiveness of multiple imputation by chained equations (MICE), k-nearest neighbors (KNN), and missforest (MF) imputation methods on a mental health data set from Kaggle that includes clinical and behavioral characteristics related to mental health patients. Prior to the training of the model, the preprocessing steps included balancing of the dataset, the creation of artificial unaccounted data, and the encoding of the categories. Reconstruction measures were used to test the performance of the imputation, and a Random Forest Classifier was used to test the performance of the model for predictions. The reconstruction accuracy for MICE was 94.67%, with a high R2 value of 0.93, showing the best performance overall, according to the testing results, compared to the performance of KNN, which provided a slightly better reconstruction accuracy of 95.67%. MICE provided better performance in the field of predictive modeling compared to KNN and MissForest, with the highest classification accuracy of 74.12% and a Macro F1 Score of 0.79. This highlights the need to test the performance of the models of imputation in terms of their effect on the performance of mental health analytics.",
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      "name": "Sana Faiz"
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    {
      "name": "Areej Fatemah Meghji"
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      "name": "Salahuddin Saddar"
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  "published": "2026-10-26",
  "publisher": "Sukkur IBA University",
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  "title": "A Comparative Evaluation of Missing Data Imputation Techniques and Their Impact on Classification Performance in Healthcare",
  "title_text": "A Comparative Evaluation of Missing Data Imputation Techniques and Their Impact on Classification Performance in Healthcare",
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  "url": "https://research.draconitic.com/paper/7yvrbxa5v519a",
  "venue": "Sukkur IBA Journal of Computing and Mathematical Sciences",
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