I need to construct confidence intervals for the binomial variance. This is the usual estimate

        v = x*(n-x)/n

or its unbiased counterpart

        v' = x*(n-x)/(n-1)

where x = binomial number of successes observed in n Bernoulli trials from proportion p.

The usual X^2 method for variance confidence intervals will not work, because of the strong non-normal character of the sampling distribution for v (or v').

Does anyone know of an R package with R function that computes a reasonable confidence interval for v or v'?

Thanks.
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