jackknifes

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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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verb
  1. indicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of jackknife
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