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Endpoint asymptotics of the symmetric-uniform maximum likelihood estimator

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For an independent sample from Uniform[−θ,θ], the maximum likelihood estimator is Mn​=maxi​∣Xi​∣ and
n(θ−Mn​)d​Exp(1/θ).
(1)
The parameter-dependent support makes the convergence rate n rather than n​, so the regular maximum-likelihood central limit theorem does not apply.

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