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jackknife

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Noun

  1. Alternative spelling of jack-knife.
  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.

Verb

  1. Alternative form of jack-knife.

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