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Definition of Jackknifed
1. jackknife [v] - See also: jackknife
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jackknifed
Literary usage of Jackknifed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Vegetation Monitoring: An Annotated Bibliography edited by Caryl L. Elzinga, Angela G. Evenden (1998)
"The jackknifed estimate is based on the distribution of number of
species (psuedo-values) given resampled groups of n-1 from the total of n sampled
quadrats ..."
2. Education Indicators: An International Perspective by Nancy Matheson, Laura H. Salganik, Richard P. Phelps, Marianne Perie (1997)
"X jackknifed standard error is greater than .165. In Educational Testing Service,
International Assessment of Educational Progress Learning Science, 1992, ..."
3. How to Make Insurance Companies Pay Your Claims by William M. Shernoff (1990)
"One cold day in December, Ray was driving down an icy road in Weed, California,
when his truck jackknifed. The truck was totaled and Ray ..."
4. Torture and Ill-Treatment: Israel's Interrogation of Palestinians from the by Human Rights Watch/Middle East (1994)
"... fully on the ground; • Standing up straight; or • Sitting on the ledge with
one's legs jackknifed in the air, with the knees resting against the door. ..."
5. Composition and Rhetoric for Schools by Robert Herrick, Lindsay Todd Damon (1905)
"western stage-driver, who, explaining how his horses fell over one another going
downhill, said, "The wheelers just jackknifed on the leaders. ..."
6. Analysis of Censored Data: Proceedings of the Workshop on Analysis of by Hira L. Koul, J. V. Deshpande (1995)
"We propose suitably jackknifed and bootstrapped versions of KS-type and linear
test statistics and explore their properties using functional jackknifing and ..."
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