impute

UK /ɪmˈpjuːt/ US /ɪmˈpjut/
verb 5

Definitions

verb

1

To attribute or ascribe (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source.

The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness.

Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, / If mem’ry o’er their tomb no trophies raise, / Where thro’ the long-drawn isle and fretted vault, / The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.

2

To ascribe (sin or righteousness) to someone by substitution.

To use the technical language of theologians, God through his grace "imputes" the merits of the crucified and risen Christ to a fallen human being who remains without inherent merit, and who without this "imputation" would not be "made" righteous at all.

3

To take into account.

They ſerved with honour in the wars of Bajazet; but a plan of fortifying Conſtantinople excited his jealouſy: he threatened their lives; the new works were inſtantly demoliſhed; and we ſhall beſtow a praiſe, perhaps above the merit of Palæologus, if we impute this laſt humiliation as the cauſe of his death.

4

To attribute or credit to.

People impute great cleverness to cats.

In any case, the practices imputed to Shakespeare as an emergent dramatist were not in the least exceptional.

5

To replace missing data with substituted values.

We will use a logistic regression model to impute values of nominal and ordinal variables and a linear regression model to impute values of continuous variables.

remove observed values and impute

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