##Statistics Seminar##\\ Department of Mathematical Sciences ~~META:title =April 2, 2015~~ ^ **DATE:**|Thursday, April 2, 2015 | ^ **TIME:**|1:15pm to 2:15pm | ^ **LOCATION:**|WH 100E | ^ **SPEAKER:**|Mary Lowry (Binghamton University) | ^ **TITLE:**|Stein's two-stage estimation procedure: A case study | \\ **Abstract** We offer a numerical case study of the performance of Stein's (1945) two-stage procedure to estimate the unknown mean of a normal population with unknown variance.