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I agree with Mr. Greg Heath; your last resort is
bootstrapping. That might increase the confidence on the
statistical result you have, i.e. to "fully" trust in the
standard deviation estimate or alike... but if the highly
beliavable estimate itself is not good for you there is no
further solution!
So all of the comments have value; if the (for example)
standard deviation estimate is very precise but it is too
large for your needs you will need extra data. No way to
avoid that... or at least I am unaware of!
Regards
Carlos