##Statistics Seminar##\\ Department of Mathematical Sciences ~~META:title =February 19, 2015~~ ^ **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.