impute

1. (transitive) To attribute or ascribe (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source.Examples: "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."Synonyms: attribute, insinuate, charge, implytransitive

2. (transitive, theology) To ascribe (sin or righteousness) to someone by substitution.Examples: "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."transitive

3. (transitive) To take into account.Examples: "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."Synonyms: consider, regard, reckontransitive

4. (transitive) To attribute or credit to.Examples: "People impute great cleverness to cats."; "In any case, the practices imputed to Shakespeare as an emergent dramatist were not in the least exceptional."Synonyms: attribute, ascribe, assigntransitive

5. (transitive, statistics) To replace missing data with substituted values.Examples: "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"transitive