English Explanatory Dictionary

jackknife

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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.

Word forms

jackknife jackknives jackknifes jackknifing jackknifed

Synonyms

leave-one-out

Derived words

antijackknife
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