For a scalar parameter restricted to , test against with identifiable interior nuisance parameters. A locally quadratic regular likelihood has an efficient null score , and the constrained fit projects the unconstrained local maximizer onto the nonnegative half-line. Consequently
For a positive statistic, its asymptotic upper-tail p-value is half the ordinary one-degree chi-squared tail. Its 5% critical value is the 90th chi-squared percentile, approximately 2.7055. Additional boundary nuisance parameters or nonidentified mixture parameters can change this law.
Given valid p-values for constancy on intervals of length at least two, reject when . Every rejected true interval forces rejection of its maximal constant block. A union bound over the non-singleton maximal blocks gives familywise error rate at most , since their lengths sum to at most . Singleton blocks have no tested interval in this formulation.