Solution

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For a fixed true parameter , the usual asymptotic normality of maximum likelihood estimators gives
Equivalently, for a large sample, is approximately normally distributed with mean and variance . Replacing the unknown variance by its consistent plug-in estimate gives the Wald confidence interval
Here is a standard-normal quantile. Intersect with the physical parameter range if needed. This is an interior, large-sample approximation; the degenerate estimate from does not justify a zero-width finite-sample interval.

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