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BEAMs can present substantial challenges in data analysis. This study investigates how BEAMs impact missing value imputation (MVI) and batch effect (BE) correction algorithms (BECAs). Through simulations and analyses of real-world datasets including the Clinical Proteomic Tumour Analysis Consortium (CPTAC), we evaluated six MVI methods: K-nearest neighbors (KNN), Mean, MinProb, Singular Value Decomposition (SVD), Multivariate Imputation by Chained Equations (MICE), and Random Forest (RF), with ComBat and limma as the BECAs. We demonstrated that BEAMs strongly affect MVI performance, resulting in inaccurate imputed values, inflated significant P-values, and compromised BE correction. KNN, SVD, and RF were particularly prone to propagating random signals, resulting in false statistical confidence. While imputation with Mean and MinProb were less detrimental, artifacts were nonetheless introduced. 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