How is the fit function in SimpleImputer working to find the mean in the Salary column as well when just the Age column is given as its argument?

Question

The only argument inside the fit function of SimpleImputer is: 'Age'. Yet the returned output worked on the 'Salary' column as well. That is what I am unable to understand.

Here is my code (considering all the necessary libraries imported):

from sklearn.impute import SimpleImputer
imputer = SimpleImputer(missing_values = np.nan)
imputer = imputer.fit(df[['Age']])    
X[:, 1:3] = imputer.fit_transform(X[:, 1:3])
print(X)

Dataset:

   Country   Age   Salary Purchased
0   France  44.0  72000.0        No
1    Spain  27.0  48000.0       Yes
2  Germany  30.0  54000.0        No
3    Spain  38.0  61000.0        No
4  Germany  40.0      NaN       Yes
5   France  35.0  58000.0       Yes
6    Spain   NaN  52000.0        No
7   France  48.0  79000.0       Yes
8  Germany  50.0  83000.0        No
9   France  37.0  67000.0       Yes

Output:

[['France' 44.0 72000.0]
 ['Spain' 27.0 48000.0]
 ['Germany' 30.0 54000.0]
 ['Spain' 38.0 61000.0]
 ['Germany' 40.0 63777.77777777778]
 ['France' 35.0 58000.0]
 ['Spain' 38.77777777777778 52000.0]
 ['France' 48.0 79000.0]
 ['Germany' 50.0 83000.0]
 ['France' 37.0 67000.0]]

Answer 1

imputer = imputer.fit(df[['Age']])    
X[:, 1:3] = imputer.fit_transform(X[:, 1:3])

You are again applying "fit" with fit_trasnform. Try with "transform" only

You will get a value error

ValueError: X has 3 features per sample, expected 2