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seminars:stat:02192015

Statistics Seminar
Department of Mathematical Sciences

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


Abstract

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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