jackknife
noun
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L322775 on Wikidata ↗verb
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L332058 on Wikidata ↗Wiktionary
noun
- 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.”
- 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
- Alternative form of jack-knife.