imputation

English

Etymology

From Middle French imputation, from Latin imputatio.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌɪm.pjʊˈteɪ.ʃən/

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  Rhymes: -eɪʃən

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Noun

imputation (countable and uncountable, plural imputations)

1. The act of imputing or charging; attribution; ascription.
2. That which has been imputed or charged.
3. Charge or attribution of evil; censure; reproach; insinuation.
4. (theology) A setting of something to the account of; the attribution of personal guilt or personal righteousness of another.

   the imputation of the sin of Adam

   the imputation of the righteousness of Christ

   • 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 84, column 2:

     So, if a Sonne that is by his Father ſent about Merchandize, doe ſinfully miſcarry vpon the Sea; the imputation of his vvickedneſſe, by your rule, ſhould be impoſed vpon his Father that ſent him: […]

5. Opinion; intimation; hint.
   • 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 6:

     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.

6. (statistics) The process of replacing missing data with substituted values.
7. (genetics) The statistical inference of unobserved genotypes.
8. (game theory) A distribution that is efficient and individually rational.

Derived terms

• geo-imputation

Related terms

• imputability
• imputable
• imputableness
• imputably
• imputational
• impute
• reimputation

Translations

act of imputing

• Bulgarian: приписване (pripisvane), отдаване (otdavane), вменяване (във вина) (vmenjavane (vǎv vina))
• Czech: imputace f
• Dutch: aantijging (nl) f
• Finnish: imputaatio (fi)
• French: imputation (fr) f
• German: Unterstellung (de) f
• Portuguese: imputação (pt) f
• Russian: обвине́ние (ru) n (obvinénije), вмене́ние в вину́ n (vmenénije v vinú)
• Spanish: imputación (es) f

that which has been imputed

• Czech: imputace f
• Dutch: aantijging (nl) f
• German: Unterstellung (de) f
• Portuguese: imputação (pt) f

References

• “imputation”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “imputation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.py.ta.sjɔ̃/

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Noun

imputation f (plural imputations)

1. imputation

Further reading

• “imputation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.