imputation
/ˌɪmpjuˈteɪʃən/
noun
- A charge or accusation that someone has done something wrong; the act of attributing blame or fault to someone.
- The imputation of guilt without evidence is unfair.
- His reputation suffered from the false imputation of theft.
- She denied the imputation that she had lied to the committee.
- The act of assigning a quality, action, or effect to someone or something as a cause or source.
- The imputation of the team's success to the new coach was widely accepted.
- The imputation of motives to historical figures can be tricky.
- In statistics, imputation is used to fill in missing data values.
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