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 +<WRAP centeralign>##Statistics Seminar##\\ Department of Mathematical Sciences</WRAP>
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 +~~META:title =February 19, 2015~~
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 +^  **DATE:**|Thursday, February 19, 2015 |
 +^  **TIME:**|1:15pm to 2:15pm |
 +^  **LOCATION:**|WH 100E |
 +^  **SPEAKER:**|Lishun Li (Binghamton University) |
 +^  **TITLE:**|On a minimax property of the sample mean when the population is normally distributed |
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 +<WRAP centeralign>**Abstract**</WRAP>
 +We will show that the sample mean is a minimax estimator (under the 1-0 loss function) of the unknown mean of a normal population with unknown variance.
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