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There are implementations of confidence intervals but they all suffer from a drawback, either
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* they assume normality of the underlying distribution, basically replacing the fourth moment with a known value.
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* or they use heuristics such as bootstrapping etc., which are only approximately valid.
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Here, we implemement a confidence interval that relies on the universally best (in the least-mean-squared sense) estimator of the variance of the sample variance, it being the U-statistic estimator. So, the validity of the approach is mathematically proven.
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# Reference

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