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jackknife.

Alternative spelling of jack-knife.

9 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun
  1. Alternative spelling of jack-knife.

    alt-of · alternative
  2. 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.

verb
  1. Alternative form of jack-knife.

    alt-of · alternative
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