BOOTSTRAP AND JACKKNIFE RESAMPLING: A METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH TO ESTIMATE MAJOR FRUIT CROPS IN NAGALAND

ABSTRACTA survey was conducted in all the 12 district of Nagaland; bootstrap and jackknife resampling is adopted toassess the accuracy of the estimation of area and production of major fruit crops with 2200 respondents to becultivated as major fruit crops. For the majority of fruit growers, a lack of sufficient machinery and tools wasregarded as a major impediment, accounting for 66.95 per cent of respondents. For CV estimation of fruit cropproduction and bearing fruit trees, the results of using the bootstrap and jackknife resampling methods from theoriginal data set demonstrate a significant increase in accuracy.