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Confidence intervals for means and variances of nonnormal distributions

José Dias Curtoa Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), BRU-UNIDE, Lisboa, Portugal;b Department of Quantitative Methods, Complexo INDEG/ISCTE, Lisboa, PortugalCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 4414-4430 | Received 29 Sep 2020, Accepted 28 Jul 2021, Published online: 16 Aug 2021

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