jackknife
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Noun
jackknife (plural jackknives)
- Alternative spelling of jack-knife
- 1887, Julian Hawthorne, A Tragic Mystery: From the Diary of Inspector Byrnes, page 25:
- […] near it is a cluster of weapons of villanous aspect, comprising every thing from a Malayan creese to a sailor's jackknife or a Smith & Wesson revolver.
- (statistics) A resampling method that applies estimators to all subsamples that each omit a single different group (possibly of a single datapoint) of the original sample to provide a sample distribution of the estimate.
- Synonym: leave-one-out
Translations
statistics
See also
Resampling (statistics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
jackknife (third-person singular simple present jackknifes, present participle jackknifing, simple past and past participle jackknifed)
- Alternative form of jack-knife
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