impute

verb5

1. •
   To attribute or ascribe (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source.

   • The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness.
2. •
   To attribute, ascribe, blame, or credit to.

   • People impute great cleverness to cats.
3. •
   To replace missing data with substituted values.

   • We will use a logistic regression model to impute values of nominal and ordinal variables and a linear regression model to impute values of continuous variables. — 2010
4. •
   To ascribe (sin or righteousness) to someone by substitution.
5. •
   To take into account.