imputative

9.9

Assigning something to a person or thing, for example giving values for missing data

adjective
/ɪmˈpjuːtətɪv/

Specialized

: imputativo

In statistics, imputative methods help fill in gaps where information is incomplete or unavailable.
imputative righteousness

Examples

Data scientists often rely on imputative techniques to estimate the absent values in a dataset.
The researchers used imputative analysis to assign values to the missing data in their study.
Crisp pulled the chain apart and opened up possibilities for the free flow of grace that the fully linked chain had inhibited; his audacity is measured by his sensitivity to the unconstricted play of free and imputative grace.

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Crisp's covenant, then, is a putrid place; but it proclaims the efficacy of imputative righteousness, singly considered.

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To these Puritan conventions, Crisp subjoins a magnification of the all-sufficiency of imputative righteousness, which at a stroke severs the Perkinsian regime of preparatory works.

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Sibbes had warned of puritan-sounding erasures of puritan piety: antinomians transgressed abominably in decoupling imputative grace from inherent.

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Surface Forms

imputative positive

Morphology

imputative = impute (transparent) = impute + ative

Formed from the verb 'impute' with the productive adjectival suffix '-ative', so the meaning 'relating to attributing or assigning' is directly derived.

Etymology

Imputative comes from the Latin parts in- ('to') and putare ('to think' or 'to count'), the same root you see in impute and compute. So, something imputative is 'assigned' or 'attributed' to a person or cause — for example a suggested blame or a way to fill missing data when you do not have direct proof.