Github user MLnick commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/17324#discussion_r107300477
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@@ -1284,6 +1284,61 @@ for more details on the API.
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+
+## Imputer
+
+Imputation transformer for completing missing values in the dataset,
either using the mean or the
+median of the columns in which the missing value are located. The input
columns should be of
+DoubleType or FloatType. Currently Imputer does not support categorical
features and possibly
+creates incorrect values for a categorical feature. All Null values in the
input column are
+treated as missing, and so are also imputed.
+
+**Examples**
+
+Suppose that we have a DataFrame with the column `a` and `b`:
+
+~~~
+ a | b
+------------|-----------
+ 1.0 | Double.NaN
+ 2.0 | Double.NaN
+ Double.NaN | 3.0
+ 4.0 | 4.0
+ 5.0 | 5.0
+~~~
+
+By default, Imputer will replace all the `Double.NaN` (missing value) with
the mean (strategy) from
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Perhaps "In this example, Imputer will replace all occurrences of
`Double.NaN` (the default for the missing value) with the mean (the default
imputation strategy) from the other values in the corresponding columns".
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