How to Use imputation in a Sentence

imputation

noun

• I resent the imputation that I'm nice to Grandmother because she has money.
• This process, called imputation, is still better than leaving the census forms blank.
  — Paulina Pineda, The Arizona Republic, 11 Aug. 2021
• Data-rich users could be granted a grade A-B-C kind of data-index score rather than the old basic imputation model of the physical world.
  — Michel Kilzi, Forbes, 10 Aug. 2022
• Are lower wages the indulgence required of the American underclass to avoid the imputation of sinister motives by Rye?
  — John Hirschauer, National Review, 24 June 2019
• In New York, state and federal judges scrapped the imputation of homosexuality as grounds for defamation in 2012.
  — Michael Hiltzik, chicagotribune.com, 5 Sep. 2017
• After the 2000 Census, Utah sued the Commerce Department for using imputation to infer how many people lived at a residence when people didn’t respond to the survey.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2020
• The problem with going 0-6 in elimination games the last two seasons is the unfair imputations of choking that overlook the injury situation.
  — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 28 Mar. 2018
• They were concerned that a statistical technique called imputation used to fill in gaps in the numbers would affect state population figures and how they would be used for apportionment.
  — Alison Dirr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2021
• Additional with other duties during a six-year term, Milford’s mayor would budget the city, with department leaders and warden imputation.
  — Cincinnati.com, 30 Aug. 2017
• And for another, imputation algorithms are getting better at guessing unknown bits of genetic code from the surrounding snippets.
  — Megan Molteni, Wired, 16 Dec. 2020
• Multiple imputation accounting for loss to follow-up yielded similar results.
  — Andrew Mark Miller, Washington Examiner, 18 Nov. 2020

Last Updated: 30 Oct 2024