How to pronounce “jackknife”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• Alternative spelling of jack-knife.
• (statistics) 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.

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