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    • Missing data pose significant challenges in data analysis, often causing biased estimates and reduced reliability.
    • Existing imputation methods frequently overlook the influence of the feature with the missing value, leading to suboptimal predictions.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To propose a novel data imputation strategy, Structural Causal Imputation (SCImputation), grounded in structural causal models.
    • To mitigate confounding introduced by the target feature during neighbor selection in imputation.

    Main Methods:

    • Adopted a structural causal perspective to analyze data imputation.
    • Developed SCImputation to refine neighbor selection using both instance-level and feature-level information.
    • Applied a back-door adjustment formula to reweight local estimates with global distribution, correcting for confounding.

    Main Results:

    • SCImputation variants achieved 3.0%-4.6% gains in accuracy and 0.009-0.059 reductions in Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) compared to 12 baselines.
    • Demonstrated competitive performance against leading deep learning baselines across diverse missingness mechanisms.
    • Evaluated on five diverse datasets including NACC and NCBI microarrays.

    Conclusions:

    • SCImputation offers a causally grounded strategy for addressing missing data challenges.
    • The method provides significant improvements in accuracy and reliability for data imputation.
    • Applicable to both biomedical and general data analysis scenarios.