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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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Variance of unbiased estimator for the shape parameter of Pareto distribution
I'm interested in getting the error bounds of the unbiased estimator of the shape parameter ($\alpha$) using maximum likelihood method of Pareto distribution.
The unbiased estimator is known to be
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Confidence intervals and variance for ordinal scale set [0-5]
We have a known sample of data coming from a multiple choice ordinal scale survey question with scores from the set [0,1,2,3,4,5].
In one sample, the mean of this ...
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What are meaningful ways to interpret Monte Carlo-simulated non-normal data?
My question relates to Confidence Interval (CI) calculation of Monte Carlo-simulated non-normal data
As answers and comments to that question show the confidence interval for the given distribution ...
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Confidence interval for variances
I have a lot of variances $\sigma^2(x)$ as these:
Now I have two task: remove the vertical outliers and compute the confidence intervals (for all cases, this is only one case).
I think that their ...