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Jackknife

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Word	Definition
clasp knifenoun	Alternative spelling of clasp-knife. [A knife with a hinged blade or blades that, for safety when not in use, can be folded into a slot in the handle.]

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Word	Definition
clasp knifenoun	Alternative spelling of clasp-knife. [A knife with a hinged blade or blades that, for safety when not in use, can be folded into a slot in the handle.]
divenoun	A jump or plunge into water.
jack-knifenoun	A compact folding knife.
rejection samplingnoun	(computational statistics, numerical analysis) A technique used to generate observations from a distribution by repeatedly sampling an approximation function that bounds the distribution everywhere from above and rejecting the samples based on the quotient of the two functions at the sample's location.
samplingnoun	The process or technique of obtaining a representative sample.
pseudosamplingnoun	The selection of a pseudosample
studentizationnoun	Synonym of studentification.
estimatornoun	A person who estimates, especially one who estimates costs
kitchen sink regressionnoun	(statistics, derogatory) A statistical regression which uses many possible independent variables to attempt to explain variance in a dependent variable.
jaccard indexnoun	(statistics) A statistic for gauging the similarity and diversity of sample sets, based on the size of the intersection between the sets divided by the size of the union of the sets.
sample functionnoun	(statistics) Any function used to obtain a set of samples from a given population
bootstrapnoun	(computing) The process by which the operating system of a computer is loaded into its memory.
cross-validationnoun	(statistics) Any technique or instance of assessing how the results of a statistical analysis will generalize to an independent dataset.
monte carlo methodnoun	(mathematics, statistics) Any of a class of techniques for estimating the solution of a numerical mathematical problem by means of a random artificial sampling experiment that simulates the problem.
cross sectionnoun	A section formed by a plane cutting through an object, usually at right angles to an axis.
decimationnoun	(generally) The killing or destruction of any large portion of a population.
k-means clusteringnoun	A method of vector quantization, originally from signal processing, that aims to partition n observations into k clusters in which each observation belongs to the cluster with the nearest mean, serving as a prototype of the cluster.
pseudolikelihoodnoun	(statistics) An approximation to the joint probability distribution of a collection of random variables.
polykaynoun	(mathematics) A statistic that is a certain kind of linear combination of sample moments. (See reference for details.)
sample pathnoun	(statistics) Any set of possible values to which the appropriate random variables determined by a stochastic process might map a given point in the sample space, taken over all values of the index space (often regarded as time).