impute

Etymology

Definitions

1. 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.
   • I impute my improvement more to the kind attentions of Lord Allerton, who is my companion still, and will not, I think, leave me, than to the sea air.
2. 2

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

3. 3

   To take into account.

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   1. 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.
   2. 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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