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Word: jackknife (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • jack-knife
  • 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.

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Verb:

  • jack-knife

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