For the maximum likelihood tests for a change in the mean of independent random variables, it is proved that the limit distribution is a double exponential, i.e. Gumbel, distribution. Our results also explain why the maximum likelihood methods are very powerful on the tails.
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Gombay et al. (1990) studied this question.
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