##Statistics Seminar##\\ Department of Mathematical Sciences ~~META:title =March 19, 2015~~ ^ **DATE:**|Thursday, March 19, 2015 | ^ **TIME:**|1:15pm to 2:15pm | ^ **LOCATION:**|WH 100E | ^ **SPEAKER:**|Bo Yan (Binghamton University) | ^ **TITLE:**|A numerical method to evaluate the performance of the Chow-Robbins sequential estimation procedure | \\ **Abstract** We exposit the numerical method developed by Robbins (1959) to evaluate the performance of a family of sequential estimation procedures (stopping times). Since the latter family includes the celebrated Chow-Robbins (1965) purely sequential estimation procedure, the method can be applied to compute the performance of the Chow-Robbins procedure as well.