jackknife

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Synonyms: jack-knife, jack knife, jacknife, jacksnipe, jackknifed, jackknifes

Antonyms: jack-knife, jack knife, jacknife, jacksnipe, jackknifed, jackknifes

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Noun

1. {{alternative spelling of|en|jack-knife}}.
2. {{lb|en|statistics}} A [[resampling]] method that applies [[estimator]]s 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|en|jack-knife}}.

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