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jackknife en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of jack-knife.
   alt of jack-knife
   • […] 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. 1887, Julian Hawthorne, A Tragic Mystery: From the Diary of Inspector Byrnes, page 25:
2. 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.

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Deriveds

antijackknife

Synonyms

leave-one-out

Translations (1)

pl jackknife (statistics)

jackknife en · VERB

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of jack-knife.
   alt of jack-knife

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