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This distribution was originally proposed to study fatigue over time in materials and has become widely employed for reliability and fatigue studies. In statistics, the coefficient of variation (CV) is employed to measure relative variation. Furthermore, comparing the CVs of several samples from BS distributions is an important approach to assess the variation among them. Herein, we propose estimation methods for the simultaneous confidence intervals (SCIs) for all pairwise differences between the CVs of multiple BS distributions based on the percentile bootstrap, the generalized confidence interval (GCI), the method of variance estimates recovery (MOVER) based on the asymptotic confidence interval (ACI) and GCI, Bayesian credible interval, and the highest posterior density (HPD) interval. The coverage probabilities and average lengths of the proposed methods were examined via a simulation study to determine their performance. The results demonstrate that GCI and the MOVER based on the GCI method provided satisfactory performances in almost every case studied. Particulate matter \u2264 2.5 \u03bcm (PM2.5) concentration datasets from three areas in northern Thailand were used to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed methods.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/sym14122666","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,19]],"date-time":"2022-12-19T06:58:29Z","timestamp":1671433109000},"page":"2666","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Simultaneous Confidence Intervals for All Pairwise Differences between the Coefficients of Variation of Multiple Birnbaum\u2013Saunders Distributions"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2322-5010","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Wisunee","family":"Puggard","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Applied Statistics, Faculty of Applied Science, King Mongkut\u2019s University of Technology North Bangkok, Bangkok 10800, Thailand"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8269-3397","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sa-Aat","family":"Niwitpong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Applied Statistics, Faculty of Applied Science, King Mongkut\u2019s University of Technology North Bangkok, Bangkok 10800, Thailand"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3059-1131","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Suparat","family":"Niwitpong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Applied Statistics, Faculty of Applied Science, King Mongkut\u2019s University of Technology North Bangkok, Bangkok 10800, Thailand"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,16]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"319","DOI":"10.2307\/3212003","article-title":"A new family of life distributions","volume":"6","author":"Birnbaum","year":"1969","journal-title":"J. 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