jackknife

About 0.14 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Alternative spelling of jack-knife.
2. noun 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.
3. verb Alternative form of jack-knife.

Similar words

clasp knife dive jack-knife rejection sampling sampling pseudosampling studentization estimator kitchen sink regression jaccard index

Often followed by

and position method procedure estimate in estimator or to

Word family

jackknifed jackknifes jackknifing jackknives