Mahalanobis distance with missing entries
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The Mahalanobis distance between a state with missing readouts for a subset of features and a "historical" row is essentially calculated as if we were setting the missing entry equal to the respective record in the "historical" row. See the following link for reference:
CEEDesigns.jl/src/GenerativeDesigns/distancebased.jl
Lines 115 to 128 in d1d09c3
However, this might not be the optimal approach. For more information, consider the following resources: https://search.r-project.org/CRAN/refmans/modi/html/MDmiss.html and also https://www.jstor.org/stable/3559861, particularly on page 285.