Jackknife resampling
Jackknife
- Date
- 1949 · confidence low
- Place
- Harpenden, United Kingdom
- Credited to
- Maurice Quenouille
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
Statistical resampling technique that estimates an estimator's bias and variance by recalculating it after omitting one observation at a time; introduced by Maurice Quenouille.
What it led to
- Efron's bootstrap method as a later development
- Leave-one-out cross-validation
- Robust standard-error estimation
- Popularization of the name "jackknife" by John Tukey