On the asymptotic distribution of the scan statistic for empirical distributions

This paper investigates the asymptotic behavior of several variants of the scan statistic for empirical distributions, which can be applied to detect the presence of an anomalous interval of any given length. In particular, we are interested in a Studentized scan statistic that is often preferable in practice. The main ingredients of our proof include Kolmogorov’s theorem, Poisson approximation, and the technical devices developed by Kabluchko and Wang (Stoch. Process. Their Appl.124 (2014) 2824–2867).