0 a suggestion that someone is guilty of something or has a particular bad quality:
imputations of dishonesty
1 a suggestion that someone is guilty of something, or that something is the cause of something else:
2 a way of calculating something when you do not have the full or correct data:
The coefficient estimates were very similar to those obtained with the multiple imputation method.
The multiple imputation algorithm proceeds as follows : an independent uniform random number is selected for each imprecise value from its feasible range.
No significant outliers were found and no missing data imputation was performed.
Imputation in this case was accomplished using the estimation maximization algorithm, which is a type of maximum likelihood method for data imputation.
The small differences observed could be explained by the narrow range of possible values from which imputed values were selected in the multiple imputation method.
Such imputations helped him understand popular categories of race, ethnicity and gender.
Imputation is important when missing values are not randomly distributed, which could bias results.
The problem of loss to follow-up of cost diaries is well-known and imputation is considered to be feasible and valid (12).
