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Bootstrap estimation of variance and C.I. in cases with small group of outliers

I have a given quantity, say $y_a$ which parametrically depends on $a$ value. I consider $N$ values for the $a$ parameter and, for each one take multiple measures of the corresponding $y_a$ (say $N_a$ ...
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Bootstrapping variance in R gives weird shaped distribution- how to obtain confidence intervals?

this is the first time I've used bootstrapping so it's quite basic! I'm trying to obtain confidence intervals for the standardised variance- defined as the variance over the square of the mean- across ...
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Compute confidence interval for univariate Kernel Density Estimator

I've got a univariate dataset (timeseries) for two kind of simulated systems, and I want to explore the differences between the two. To do that, I can build a univariate gaussian KDE for each dataset ...
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Computing confidence intervals for population variance from a sample in R

Is there a package available for R (on CRAN, github, r-forge, etc.) that computes CIs for the population variance, given a sample of data, 95% CI parameter, etc.? The ...
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How can I pool bootstrapped p-values across multiply imputed data sets?

I am concerned with the problem that I would like to bootstrap the p-value for an estimate of $\theta$ from multiply imputed (MI) data, but that it is unclear to me how to combine the p-values across ...
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Bootstrap confidence intervals for partitioned variances in R

I'm trying to determine the variance partitioning within plant drought tolerance data among hierarchical ecological levels, from species to forest sites to biome levels. I did that with the varcomp ...
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Using bootstrap for glm coefficients variance estimation (in R)

I am fitting a GLM model (in R), and would like to get an estimation of the variability of the coefficients estimated by the model. If I understand it correctly the method to use in such a case is ...
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