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Calculating confidence intervals for the variance of the residuals in R

I have three variables: Number of house sales Month (in couples) Region of a city (N-W-E-S) and I want to calculate confidence intervals for the residual of the errors. So, given the data: ...
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How to calculate the standard deviation of a sample and its 95% CI if I know the variance and its 95% CI?

I apologize if my question is extremely simple, but you know my name. I have only the variance of a sample and its 95% confidence intervals, nothing more, nothing less. Please correct me if I am ...
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How can I obtain the 95% confidence interval for the variance of a random effect?

After running a linear mixed model, I want to obtain the 95% confidence interval for the variance estimation of my random effect. The function confint() in R gives ...
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Create a simulation study using R to compare the accuracy (95% capture rate) and the lengths of the Chi-Squared confidence intervals

The minimum length confidence bounds for a normal population variance for chi-squared distribution is Are they right? GOAL: Create a simulation study using R to compare the accuracy (95% capture ...
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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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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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