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ReviewMolecular ecology resources2026

On the Use of the Jackknife to Compare R

Oliver Patrick Stuart

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Review in Molecular ecology resources, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Oliver Patrick StuartSchool of Biological, Earth, and Environmental Sciences, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.

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Marine Institute PDOC/23/04/01
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Abstract

Many useful quantities in conservation genomics are point estimates that summarise genetic variation at the population or species level. This presents a challenge to the application of null hypothesis testing frameworks, which require some measure of uncertainty to test the authenticity of measured group differences. The jackknife is a convenient statistical resampling tool which sees regular use to this end: producing confidence intervals for point estimates. Unfortunately, the slightly obscure nature of the jackknife coupled with its superficial resemblance to the bootstrap has led to its misuse, specifically in the analysis of R

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BiostatisticsConservation of Natural ResourcesGenomicsGenetic Variationbiological statisticsbootstrapconfidence intervalsconservation geneticsconservation genomicsjackknife

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PMID42112756
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