jackknife
- Noun. (alternative spelling of, jack-knife) .
- 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.
- Verb. (alternative spelling of, jack-knife) .
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