Solution

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For fixed , the central limit theorem gives
The weak law of large numbers gives , so Slutsky theorem permits replacing in the standard error by . With , an approximate 95% confidence interval is
The lower endpoint may be truncated at zero because the parameter is nonnegative. This is a large-sample normal approximation for fixed positive ; an all-zero or very sparse sample does not justify the plug-in normal approximation. At the degenerate parameter value zero, every observation is zero almost surely.

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