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Therefore, the BS distribution is useful for describing data comprising values greater than zero. The coefficient of variation (CV), which is an important descriptive statistic for explaining variation within a dataset, has not previously been used for statistical inference on a BS distribution. The aim of this study is to present four methods for constructing confidence intervals for the CV, and the difference between the CVs of BS distributions. The proposed methods are based on the generalized confidence interval (GCI), a bootstrapped confidence interval (BCI), a Bayesian credible interval (BayCI), and the highest posterior density (HPD) interval. A Monte Carlo simulation study was conducted to evaluate their performances in terms of coverage probability and average length. The results indicate that the HPD interval was the best-performing method overall. 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