impute

verb imputes · imputing · imputed

1. transitive To attribute or ascribe (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source. The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness.

   Similar: attribute, insinuate, charge, imply, accredit, ascribe, attach, chalk up to, draw, impute, lay, put down to

2. transitive To ascribe (sin or righteousness) to someone by substitution. 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.
3. transitive To take into account. 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 hi

   Similar: consider, regard, reckon

4. transitive To attribute, ascribe, blame, or credit to. People impute great cleverness to cats.

   Similar: attribute, ascribe, assign, allege

5. transitive 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.