Sharpening the Jackknife
改进 Jackknife 方法
The jackknife is now well known as a widely applicable bias-reduction tool, with the added advantages of Tukey's variance estimator, and in certain applications, a gain in precision. In this paper a new family of jackknives is introduced, together with a variance estimator. The family includes the ordinary, first-order, and second-order jackknives as special cases and the variance estimator includes Tukey's as a special case. A sample-based decision rule for choosing a…