jackknife
noun1
Alternative Alternative spelling of jack-knife.
- […] near it is a cluster of weapons of villanous aspect, comprising every thing from a Malayan creese to a sailor's jackknife or a Smith & Wesson revolver.1887, Julian Hawthorne, A Tragic Mystery: From the Diary of Inspector Byrnes, page 25:
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Mathematics, Sciences, 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.
- Derived terms
- antijackknife