Definition of "imputation"

imputation

/ˌɪm.pjʊˈteɪ.ʃən/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural imputations
1. The act of imputing or charging; attribution; ascription.
2. That which has been imputed or charged.
3. Charge or attribution of evil; censure; reproach; insinuation.
4. (theology) A setting of something to the account of; the attribution of personal guilt or personal righteousness of another.
5. Opinion; intimation; hint.
  Quotations
  All the legends of the past, and all the stupefying imputations of Henry Akeley’s letters and exhibits, welled up in my memory to heighten the atmosphere of tension and growing menace.
  1931, H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 6
6. (statistics) The process of replacing missing data with substituted values.
7. (genetics) The statistical inference of unobserved genotypes.
8. (game theory) A distribution that is efficient and individually rational.