How to Use imputation in a Sentence
imputation
noun- I resent the imputation that I'm nice to Grandmother because she has money.
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This process, called imputation, is still better than leaving the census forms blank.
—Paulina Pineda, The Arizona Republic, 11 Aug. 2021
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Third, the imputation accuracy might be compromised in this region as was shown by our Finnish sample.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 2 Mar. 2010
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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
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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
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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
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The concept of imputation is not yet fully appreciated by forensics experts who have a biological background.
—IEEE Spectrum, 20 Mar. 2023
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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
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Multiple imputation accounting for loss to follow-up yielded similar results.
—Andrew Mark Miller, Washington Examiner, 18 Nov. 2020
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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
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There’s a greater likelihood that inflation data will have a higher level of imputations, noted RBC’s Reid.
—Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 14 Nov. 2025
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Are certain administrations allowed to exercise discretion at the border without the imputation of racial motives?
—John Hirschauer, National Review, 24 June 2019
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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
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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
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Together, the incomplete tagging or inaccurate imputation combined with the use of an inappropriate genetic model may explain why this association has remained undetected.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 2 Mar. 2010
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By reducing noise and missing values, AI simplifies data imputation, categorization and clustering, improving data accessibility.
—Sandeep Shilawat, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
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