In a highly positively skewed distribution, replacing missing values with t

If a highly positively skewed variable has missing values and we replace them with mean, do we underestimate or overestimate the values?

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In a highly positively skewed distribution, replacing missing values with the mean might lead to an underestimation of the actual values. This is because a majority of data points in a positively skewed distribution are typically greater than the mean.

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