imputation

Plural: imputations

Noun

• a statement attributing something dishonest (especially a criminal offense)
  • "he denied the imputation"
• the attribution to a source or cause
  • "the imputation that my success was due to nepotism meant that I was not taken seriously"
• The act of imputing or charging; attribution; ascription.
• That which has been imputed or charged.
• Charge or attribution of evil; censure; reproach; insinuation.
• A setting of something to the account of; the attribution of personal guilt or personal righteousness of another.
• Opinion; intimation; hint.
• The process of replacing missing data with substituted values.
• The statistical inference of unobserved genotypes.
• A distribution that is efficient and individually rational.

Examples

• the imputation of the righteousness of Christ
• the imputation of the sin of Adam

Related Words

imputability, imputable, imputableness, imputably, imputational, impute, reimputation