Word: jackknife
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: jack
knife
Definition: 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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Affix: jackknife
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: 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.