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jackknife::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | clasp knife |
| Type of | pocket knife, pocketknife |
jackknife::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Type of | dive |
Examples of jackknife
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Truck drivers know the heart-stopping sway that is the beginning of a jackknife.
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The truck began to jackknife, but the stuntman driving it saved it from flipping.
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Extensions of the jackknife to allow for dependence in the data have been proposed.
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After tossing Bischoff aside, Nash nailed the jackknife powerbomb on Hogan.
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A unified jackknife theory for empirical best prediction with M-estimation.
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With lightning speed, the formidable forelegs strike like a jackknife.
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In technical terms one says that the jackknife estimate is consistent.
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The jackknife like the original bootstrap is dependent on the independence of the data.
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Usually the jackknife is easier to apply to complex sampling schemes than the bootstrap.
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- Clasp knife: a large knife with one or more folding blades
- Dive into the water bending the body at the waist at a right angle, like a jackknife
- A dive in which the diver bends to touch the ankles before straightening out
- In statistics, resampling is any of a variety of methods for doing one of the following: # Estimating the precision of sample statistics (medians, variances, percentiles) by using subsets of available data (jackknifing) or drawing randomly with replacement from a set of data points ( ...
- Jackknifing means the accidental of an articulated vehicle (such as one towing a trailer) such that it resembles the acute angle of a folding pocket knife. If a vehicle towing a trailer skids, the trailer can push it from behind until it spins round and faces backwards. ...
- Alternative spelling of jack-knife; 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; Alternative spelling of jack-knife
- To place the trailer at a very sharp angle to the tractor.
- A replication method that estimates standard errors of percentages and other statistics. It is particularly suited to complex sample designs. In the jackknife, sample units are grouped into pairs (replicate groups). ...
- Also known as the Quenouille-Tukey Jackknife, this tool was invented by Maurice Quenouille (1949) and later developed by John W. Tukey (1958). As the father of EDA, John Tukey attempted to use Jackknife to explore how a model is influenced by subsets of observations when outliers are present. ...
