What's the difference between ascription and imputation?

Ascription


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of ascribing, imputing, or affirming to belong; also, that which is ascribed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 78% of the patients completed their treatment in agreement with the original ascription to therapy, with good results for all three therapies.
  • (2) The sources of observation were objective test performances, trait ascription using a standard list of adjectives, and videotaped enactments of mood and esthetic performances.
  • (3) It is urged that interlaboratory validation of techniques and landmarks should precede the ascription of apparent differences in body build to constitutional factors.
  • (4) Mammary developmental growth was assessed on inguinal mammary glands by ascription of development scores, determination of epithelial area (mm2), and determination of total DNA levels.
  • (5) The ascription was made on the basis of a separate series of Raman examinations on six crystals involving adenosine or thymidine, and fifteen other nucleotide crystals, whose structures are all known by previous crystallographic works.
  • (6) In this paper, the problem of correct ascriptions of consciousness to patients in neurological intensive care medicine is explored as a special case of the general philosophical 'other minds problem'.
  • (7) Appropriate clinical management of affected individuals can only be instituted if enzyme activity is measured using a method capable of clear interpretation and phenotypic ascription of cholinesterase, ascertained by use of selected enzyme inhibitors, is reliable.
  • (8) Three hundred sixty six academicians with professional appointments in physics, psychology, sociology, nursing, and management were surveyed by a mailed questionnaire, the Tenure Decision Factor Inventory (TDFI) composed of Achievement (ACH) Ascriptive (ASCRIPT), Internal Political (IP), and External Political (EP) criteria related to tenure receipt.
  • (9) The implications of our data for the kinds of behavioral evidence required for ascription of such stereotypy to a central pattern generator are discussed.
  • (10) The impact of intervening variables such as selection factors as well as the influence of gender on the ascription of a diagnosis of schizophrenia for the first time were assessed.
  • (11) It is further argued that a folk version of such a theory already underlies our factual ascriptions of consciousness in clinical contexts.
  • (12) It is also suggested that the underlying as well as the overt bases for these stereotypical ascriptions may have broader applicability: differential rather than unilateral assessments may indeed be the norm rather than a peculiarly Antillean perception.
  • (13) Performance and causal ascriptions to the four factors effort, ability, luck, and task difficulty as a function of success for failure feedback were investigated.
  • (14) Care should be taken in the ascription of symptoms to minor tears so discovered.
  • (15) I defend ascription of a right of self-determination to these incompetents against both conceptual and normative attacks.
  • (16) These data are fully consistent with the original ascription that the purple species observed upon reduction of the acyl-CoA dehydrogenases with substrate represents a charge transfer complex between reduced flavin as the donor and trans-2-octenoyl-CoA as the acceptor.
  • (17) He suggests that the definition and ascription of illness are of such social importance that decisions concerning them should be made cooperatively by doctors and society.
  • (18) I argue that a court need make no conceptual error when it ascribes a right of self-determination to a being who never had capacity for rational choice, and I argue that proper judicial deference to reflective conventional morality supports ascription of a right of self-determination to severe incompetents.
  • (19) A brief review of tests of the attributional model of depression suggests that there is only weak or inconsistent support for the predicted causal ascriptions by depressed persons for negative events.
  • (20) Since the pattern of VNTR electrophoretic bands is inherited from parents in a proportion of 50% from each one, this system is extremely useful for paternity ascription or exclusion.

Imputation


Definition:

  • () The act of imputing or charging; attribution; ascription; also, anything imputed or charged.
  • () Charge or attribution of evil; censure; reproach; insinuation.
  • () A setting of something to the account of; the attribution of personal guilt or personal righteousness of another; as, the imputation of the sin of Adam, or the righteousness of Christ.
  • () Opinion; intimation; hint.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) in horses is imputed to the small numbers of people involved in the work, to the conservation of the authorities responsible for breeding, to the wrong choice of stallions for A.I.
  • (2) the ISR can be inhibited by direct neural imput to the pancreas, and this inhibition is mediated by alpha-adrenergic receptors.
  • (3) In the absence of clinically noticeable symptoms or neurologic signs of central type, more than 65% of the patients showed an increase of slow activities together with a reduction of the alpha activity presumably imputable only to the respiratory pathology.
  • (4) The author gives a critical account of the development of views regarding the imputability of sexual delinquents and the possibility of protective therapy in sexual deviations.
  • (5) Sicca syndromes with sometimes lymphocytic infiltrate similar to those of Sjögren's syndrome were occasionally imputed to drug reactions.
  • (6) While missing data has been handled by a conservative imputation rule, the fact that so many persons are unable to provide an answer to this key question casts doubt on the accuracy of the answers that were given.
  • (7) Tugendhat described the "imputation" from the NME magazine articles as a "very serious one".
  • (8) It is argued that this arrangement of afferent imput may afford a convergence of limbic and sensory information in area PG and that this may subserve a significant function in the process of sensory attention.
  • (9) I argue by illustration that, first of all, it does make good sense to see the option to be lesbian as genuine for women in a fairly common sort of circumstance; that recognizing the genuineness of this option, however, does not impute to such women major control over their lives; that choosing to be lesbian may actually narrow rather than expand one's present options; and that nevertheless it is important to acknowledge such choices for their potentialities, in community, to change the meaning of "lesbian" in liberatory ways.
  • (10) Increase in cardiac output during cold air (1 degree C) exposure is thus only imputed to the higher heart rate partly due to hypersecretion of catecholamines.
  • (11) A review of the legal aspects recalls the principles of imputability in cases of cancer and trauma.
  • (12) These two imputs overlap in the central region of the nucleus.
  • (13) Yet their anxieties, fears, affects, the nature of their information-seeking and goal-setting, their efforts to deal with reality by controlling imput, and the ways in which they seek help and socialize, are all themes common among other groups of patients experiencing stress as the result of sudden illness or injury.
  • (14) We find that the method rarely imputes trial-to-trial variation to data sets that have an unchanging signal, while it almost always produces less error than averaging when estimating a varying signal.
  • (15) NDI is a well recognized complication of primary hyperparathyroidism, generally imputed to hypercalcemia, and promptly reversible after correcting it.
  • (16) The significance of these sources of afferent imputs to the lateral cerebellar nucleus is discussed.
  • (17) The purpose of this report is to document the procedures used in the 1988 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) to select the sample, weight the data to produce national estimates, impute missing data, and estimate sampling errors.
  • (18) Using imputability scales made it possible to reduce the cause-effect relationship in 26 p. 100 of the cases.
  • (19) CAP combination chemotherapy was well tolerated without nephrotoxicity, which can be imputed to the strong saline hydration given.
  • (20) Imputability to a post-radiology bilateral external carotid thrombosis is evoked, where the diagnosis of tumoral recurrence and Horton's disease have been ruled out.