What's the difference between imputation and intimation?

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.

Intimation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of intimating; also, the thing intimated.
  • (n.) Announcement; declaration.
  • (n.) A hint; an obscure or indirect suggestion or notice; a remote or ambiguous reference; as, he had given only intimations of his design.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These immunocytochemical studies clearly demonstrated that cells encountered within the fibrous intimal thickening in the vein graft were inevitably smooth muscle cell in origin.
  • (2) The quantity of social ties, the quality of relationships as modified by type of intimate, and the baseline level of symptoms measured five years earlier were significant predictors of psychosomatic symptoms among this sample of women.
  • (3) Rifampin is recommended as a prophylactic treatment for intimate contacts of young children who develop invasive infections with Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib).
  • (4) Autopsy revealed a primary intimal sarcoma with osteogenic elements arising in the posterior leaflet of the pulmonary valve and obstructing the main pulmonary artery and its right branch.
  • (5) For the 20 patients who received treatment in the latter period (1987-1990), we gave priority to conservative treatment for type T cases that were free from complications, and adopted a treatment method attaching greater importance to the resection of intimal tears.
  • (6) Intimal damage and proliferation were seen in 1st- and 2nd-order branches of the carotid body artery in hypertensive rats and point-counting showed that the volume proportion of Type 1 cell nuclei and vascular lumen was reduced and vascular wall increased.
  • (7) The results suggest that the conversion of the HRP-TMB reaction product to an electron-dense form during osmication is intimately associated with the pH of the phosphate buffer and the total time of osmication.
  • (8) Electron-microscopic examination of the co-culture of the two cell types reveals extensive region of intimate contact.
  • (9) In abnormal arteries such as small vessels present in inflammatory tissue, the IEL was frequently discontinuous and associated with intimal thickening.
  • (10) The calculations revealed that local hypoxia and lipoprotein accumulation may occur at the ridges, leading to subsequent intimal thickening and ridge growth.
  • (11) The development of intimal hyperplasia is not excluded, as well as of inflammatory reaction with the following thrombotic occlusion of the artery lumen.
  • (12) Fatty streaks were observed in 2nd decade involving only 7.5% of the total intimal surface and reaching to a maximum of 22.2% in the 3rd decade, followed by a gradual rise to 9.2% in 7th decade.
  • (13) It shows how some experimental procedures produce dramatic increases in smooth muscle cell proliferation and, in many cases, subsequent cell migration to the intimal layer.
  • (14) Ultrastructurally, transgenic domains were often intimately connected with constitutive heterochromatin and were highly condensed.
  • (15) Since lymphocytic cells in intimate contact with degenerating keratocytes have previously been identified in the cornea, these observations provide a basis for the view that cell-mediated immunopathogenesis is involved in the etiology of herpetic stromal keratitis.
  • (16) Intimal area, lumen area and maximal intimal thickness were measured.
  • (17) Although hormone replacement decreased indexes of LDL metabolism, there was no effect on intimal thickness or indexes of endothelial injury, such as leukocyte adhesion and endothelial cell turnover rate.
  • (18) An intimate account of her last hours was given on Monday by Lady (Carla) Powell, the Italian wife of Thatcher's former diplomatic adviser Lord Powell, who had visited her often in her declining years, and whose house outside Rome the former prime minister had visited on several occasions.
  • (19) Not intimately associated with a nonvital tooth or found to have any communication with the incisive canal.
  • (20) Administration of GM1 blocks completely the appearance of PKM, a result suggesting that PKC down-regulation and PKM activity elevation are intimately associated events and that both are regulated by GM1 ganglioside.