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estimator

English

Etymology

estimate +? -or

Noun

estimator (plural estimators)

  1. A person who estimates, especially one who estimates costs
  2. (mathematics) A function of a random sample of a population used to estimate some parameter of the whole population

Related terms

  • overestimator
  • underestimator

Translations

Anagrams

  • East Timor, misrotate, triatomes

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jackknife

English

Noun

jackknife (plural jackknives)

  1. Alternative spelling of jack-knife
    • 1887, Julian Hawthorne, A Tragic Mystery: From the Diary of Inspector Byrnes (page 25)
      [] 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.
  2. (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.

Synonyms

  • (statistics): leave-one-out

Translations

See also

  • Resampling (statistics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

jackknife (third-person singular simple present jackknifes, present participle jackknifing, simple past and past participle jackknifed)

  1. Alternative spelling of jack-knife

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