Definition of "impute"

impute

/ɪmˈpjuːt/

verb
third-person singular simple present imputes, present participle imputing, simple past and past participle imputed
1. (transitive) To attribute or ascribe (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source.
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  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.
  1751, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, lines 37–40
  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.
  1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXXIV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], page 141
  He was vain, sensual, frivolous, profuse, improvident. One vice of a darker shade was imputed to him, envy.
  1856 February, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “"Oliver Goldsmith"”, in Encyclopædia Britannica, 8th edition, volume and page numbers unknown
  We ascribe or impute motives to others and avow them or confess to them in ourselves.
  1956–1960, Richard Stanley Peters, “2: Motives and Motivation”, in The Concept of Motivation, Routledge & Kegan Paul (second edition, 1960), page 29
2. (transitive, theology) To ascribe (sin or righteousness) to someone by substitution.
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  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.
  2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin (2010), page 607
3. (transitive) To take into account.
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  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.
  1788, Edward Gibbon, “Chapter 64: A.D. 1355–1391: The Emperor John Palæologus; Discord of the Greeks”, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire‎, volume 6, page 328
4. (transitive) To attribute or credit to.
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  In any case, the practices imputed to Shakespeare as an emergent dramatist were not in the least exceptional.
  2014, Janet Clare, Shakespeare's Stage Traffic, page 11
5. (transitive, statistics) To replace missing data with substituted values.
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  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.
  2010, Mamdouh Refaat, Data Preparation for Data Mining Using SAS, Elsevier, page 184
  remove observed values and impute
  2012, Stef van Buuren, Flexible Imputation of Missing Data, page 263

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