jackknife

  1. Noun.  (alternative spelling of, jack-knife) .
  2. Noun.  (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.
  3. Verb.  (alternative spelling of, jack-knife) .

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