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Preprocessing Data With Missing Values

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You are preparing data for a supervised learning task, and several features contain missing values. You want a preprocessing approach that preserves signal, avoids leakage, and works reliably during training and inference.

Question

Given a dataset with missing values, how would you handle the data preprocessing?