I have $s(t)$, a stationary stochastic process that we know is strongly mixing - and I also know that samples from $s(t)$ are definitely correlated over time. I want to estimate the mean of $s(t)$, $\mathbb{E}[s(t)]$. Since strong mixing implies ergodicity, I can simply calculate sample means to find $\mathbb{E}[s(t)]$.
Does anyone know how I can go about estimating empirical variance so I can get confidence intervals for the estimated mean?
If $s(t)$ was Markovian, for example, I could use the Strong Markov Property to find empirical variance, but I have no clue how to do this for my general, non-Markovian $s(t)$.