I'm relatively new to the random forest game, and I'm hoping for a little guidance in this problem I'm having. I'm trying to predict future results of clients of my company using the last 5 years of data. The problem that I'm running into (and maybe it's not even a problem) is that many clients aren't that old. Right now, for newer clients, I have zeroes in all the variables up until they became active. I feel that these zeroes may be throwing off the decision tree process as there is nothing differentiating these zeroes from active clients actually have zeroes in these variables. However, random forests can't handle missing independent variables so I'm not sure what the best way to go about this is.Any help / guidance would be greatly appreciated.Thanks!
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