Here are some papers that may be useful, however after unsuccesfully
trying to decipher them and apply them, I used a bootstrap
Confidence Intervals for the Coefficient of Variation for the Normal and Log
Normal Distributions
L. H. Koopmans; D. B. Owen; J. I. Rosenblatt
Biometrika, Vol. 51, No. 1/2. (Jun., 1964), pp. 25-32.
Confidence Intervals for a Normal Coefficient of Variation
Mark G. Vangel
The American Statistician, Vol. 50, No. 1. (Feb., 1996), pp. 21-26.
Tim
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Antonio Vezzani
<[email protected]> wrote:
> If, for example, in auto.dta I want to test that price have different
> coefficient of variation for foreign and domestic auto, which is the right
> procedure?
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