Crossword clues for imputation
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Imputation \Im`pu*ta"tion\, [L. imputatio an account, a charge: cf. F. imputation.]
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The act of imputing or charging; attribution; ascription; also, anything imputed or charged.
Shylock. Antonio is a good man. Bassanio. Have you heard any imputation to the contrary?
--Shak.If I had a suit to Master Shallow, I would humor his men with the imputation of being near their master.
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Charge or attribution of evil; censure; reproach; insinuation.
Let us be careful to guard ourselves against these groundless imputation of our enemies.
--Addison. (Theol.) A setting of something to the account of; the attribution of personal guilt or personal righteousness of another; as, the imputation of the sin of Adam, or the righteousness of Christ.
Opinion; intimation; hint.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, noun of action from impute (v.) on model of Middle French imputation, or else from Late Latin imputationem (nominative imputatio), noun of action from imputare.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of impute or charge; attribution; ascription. 2 That which has been imputed or charged. 3 Charge or attribution of evil; censure; reproach; insinuation. 4 (context theology English) A setting of something to the account of; the attribution of personal guilt or personal righteousness of another; as, the imputation of the sin of Adam, or the righteousness of Christ. 5 opinion; intimation; hint.
WordNet
n. a statement attributing something dishonest (especially a criminal offense); "he denied the imputation"
the attribution to a source or cause; "the imputation that my success was due to nepotism meant that I was not taken seriously"
Wikipedia
Imputation can refer to:
- Imputation (law), the concept that ignorance of the law does not excuse
- Imputation (statistics), substitution of some value for missing data
- Imputation (genetics), estimation of unmeasured genotypes
- Theory of imputation, the theory that factor prices are determined by output prices
- Imputation (game theory), a distribution that benefits each player who cooperates in a game
- Imputed righteousness, a concept in Christian theology
- Double imputation, a concept in Christian theology
- Imputation of sin, a theory for the transmission of original sin from Adam to his progeny
In statistics, imputation is the process of replacing missing data with substituted values. When substituting for a data point, it is known as "unit imputation"; when substituting for a component of a data point, it is known as "item imputation". Because missing data can create problems for analyzing data, imputation is seen as a way to avoid pitfalls involved with listwise deletion of cases that have missing values. That is to say, when one or more values are missing for a case, most statistical packages default to discarding any case that has a missing value, which may introduce bias or affect the representativeness of the results. Imputation preserves all cases by replacing missing data with an estimated value based on other available information. Once all missing values have been imputed, the data set can then be analysed using standard techniques for complete data.
In law, the principle of imputation or attribution underpins the concept that ignorantia juris non excusat— ignorance of the law does not excuse. All laws are published and available for study in all developed states. The content of the law is imputed to all persons who are within the jurisdiction, no matter how transiently.
This fiction tries to negate the unfairness of someone avoiding liability for an act or omission by simply denying knowledge of the law. The principle also arises in specific areas of law, such as criminal law and commercial law, to describe the need for the law to hold a person liable, even when they may not have known the particular circumstances that caused another person to sustain loss or damage.
In fully cooperative games players act efficiently when they form a single coalition, the grand coalition. The focus of the game is to find acceptable distributions of the payoff of the grand coalition. Distributions where a player receives less than it could obtain on its own, without cooperating with anyone else, are unacceptable - a condition known as individual rationality. Imputations are distributions that are efficient and are individually rational.
Imputation in genetics refers to the statistical inference of unobserved genotypes. It is achieved by using known haplotypes in a population, for instance from the HapMap or the 1000 Genomes Project in humans, thereby allowing to test initially-untyped genetic variants for association with a trait of interest. Genotype imputation hence helps tremendously in narrowing-down the location of probably causal variants in genome-wide association studies.
Usage examples of "imputation".
But the protection which the Paduan Doctor received from some friends of interest and consequence, enabled him to set these imputations at defiance, and to assume, even in the city of Edinburgh, famed as it was for abhorrence of witches and necromancers, the dangerous character of an expounder of futurity.
The imputation that she had once invited him to tea was utterly without foundation and the fact that Miss Goldring lived in West Pursley while the plaintiff occupied a house in East was purely coincidental.
With respect to the state of Ireland, I may only add, that by the letters which I have received from the lord-lieutenant, it appears that Sir Charles Napier had arrived at Cork with his squadron, with an able and ample body of troops, who, I am sure, are always ready to discharge their duty with unflinching bravery, and who are, therefore, entirely free from the imputations which the reports circulated this day have unfoundedly cast upon them.
But there is nothing necessarily evil in this error, and thus cruelty, envy, revenge, avarice, and the passions purely evil, have never formed any portion of the popular imputations on the lives of poets.
She has suffered very greatly from imputations which you have most unjustly thrown on her.
But I can vouch, upon my own experience, that no similar imputation lies against the gentlemen who prescribe large quantities of calomel in America.
And he was hoping to find reserves of power in her, such as would rescue her from the imputation of commonplaceness in her beliefs.
I confess that there is, but it is none the less a dishonourable imputation on me, and you in your turn must confess that those who think that I won by sleight of hand, or by an agreement with a rascal, insult me grievously.
Ferdinand very wisely fell upon his knees, and, while the tears gushed from his eyes, acquitted the young Count of the imputation, and expressed his apprehension, that the report had been spread by some of his enemies, who wanted to prejudice him in the opinion of his patron.
P/LATO\ (, Bk. X, 886) assigns this reason for the imputation thrown on A/NAXAGORAS\, namely his denying the divinity of the stars, planets, and other created objects.
Chafed by the silent imputation, and inwardly troubled by so unaccountable a circumstance, the chief advanced to the side of the bed, and, stooping, cast an incredulous look at the features, as if distrusting their reality.
When Babson got through charging a jury the latter had always in fact been instructed in brutal and sneering tones to convict the defendant or forever after to regard themselves as disloyal citizens, oath violators and outcasts though the stenographic record of his remarks would have led the reader thereof to suppose that this same judge was a conscientious, tender-hearted merciful lover of humanity, whose sensitive soul quivered at the mere thought of a prison cell, and who meticulously sought to surround the defendant with every protection the law could interpose against the imputation of guilt.
From even the barely hinted imputation of usurpation, and the possible consequences of such a suppressed impression gaining ground, Ahab must of course have been most anxious to protect himself.
So that those that were concerned, grew amazed at the numbers and quality of the persons accused and feared that Satan by his wiles had inwrapped innocent persons under the imputation of that Crime.
Upon these considerations it is more wisdom to lie under the scandal of being miserable, which is an imputation rather infamous than odious, than to be thought liberal and run yourself into a necessity of playing the tyrant, which is infamous and odious both.