imputation

Noun

imputation (countable and uncountable, plural imputations)

1. The act of imputing or charging; attribution; ascription.
2. That which has been imputed or charged.
   • "If nothing is found you withdraw all imputation against this gentleman?" demanded the Inspector of the girl.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC
3. Charge or attribution of evil; censure; reproach; insinuation.
4. 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
5. Opinion; intimation; hint.
   • 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.1931, H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 6
6. The process of replacing missing data with substituted values.
7. The statistical inference of unobserved genotypes.
8. A distribution that is efficient and individually rational.