imputation

plural imputations

1. countableuncountableThe act of imputing or charging; attribution; ascription.
2. countableuncountableThat which has been imputed or charged.

   "If nothing is found you withdraw all imputation against this gentleman?" demanded the Inspector of the girl.

   1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC

3. countableuncountableCharge or attribution of evil; censure; reproach; insinuation.
4. countableuncountablelifestyleA setting of something to the account of; the attribution of personal guilt or personal righteousness of another.

   the imputation of the sin of Adam

   2 more examples

   the imputation of the righteousness of Christ

   So, if a Sonne that is by his Father ſent about Merchandize, doe ſinfully miſcarry vpon the Sea; the imputation of his vvickedneſſe, by your rule, ſhould be impoſed vpon his Father that ſent him: […]

   1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 84, column 2

5. countableuncountableOpinion; intimation; hint.

   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. countableuncountablemathematicsThe process of replacing missing data with substituted values.
7. countableuncountablebiologyThe statistical inference of unobserved genotypes.
8. countableuncountablecomputingA distribution that is efficient and individually rational.