jackknifed

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A form of jackknife — 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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Meanings

verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of jackknife
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jackknifed. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/jackknifed

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