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Jackknife - What does it mean?

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is likely misspelled.


has no English definition.

As a noun jackknife

is an alternative spelling of jack-knife.

As a verb jackknife

is an alternative spelling of jack-knife.

jackknife

English

Noun

(jackknives)
  • (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.

    • Synonyms

    * (statistics) leave-one-out

    See also

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    Verb

    • Not English

    has no English definition. It may be misspelled.