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jacknife

jacknife is the misspelling of jackknife.

Meaning of jackknife

Noun

jackknife (plural jackknives)

  1. 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.
    Synonyms:
    leave-one-out

Questions about jacknife

What is jacknife the misspelling of?
Jacknife is the misspelling of jackknife.

Words near jacknife in the dictionary

  1. jacklit
  2. Jacklyn
  3. jackman
  4. Jackmans
  5. jackmen
  6. jacknife
  7. jacko
  8. jackoa
  9. jackoas
  10. jackoff
  11. jackoffs

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