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Imputation

//ˌɪm.pjʊˈteɪ.ʃən// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act of imputing or charging; attribution; ascription. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    the attribution to a source or cause wordnet
  3. 3
    That which has been imputed or charged. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    a statement attributing something dishonest (especially a criminal offense) wordnet
  5. 5
    Charge or attribution of evil; censure; reproach; insinuation. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    A setting of something to the account of; the attribution of personal guilt or personal righteousness of another. countable, uncountable

    "the imputation of the sin of Adam"

  2. 7
    Opinion; intimation; hint. countable, uncountable

    "All the legends of the past, and all the stupefying imputations of Henry Akeley’s letters and exhibits, welled up in my memory to heighten the atmosphere of tension and growing menace."

  3. 8
    The process of replacing missing data with substituted values. countable, uncountable
  4. 9
    The statistical inference of unobserved genotypes. countable, uncountable
  5. 10
    A distribution that is efficient and individually rational. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From Middle French imputation, from Latin imputatio.

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