Abstract-Three strongly sequential, lossless compression schemes, one with linearly growing per-letter computational complexity, and two with fixed per-letter complexity, are presented and analyzed for memoryless sources with abruptly changing statistics. The first method, which improves on Willems' weighting approach, asymptotically achieves a lower bound on the redundancy, and hence is optimal. The second scheme achieves redundancy of O (log N=N ) when the transitions in the statistics are large, and O (log log N= log N ) otherwise. The third approach always achieves redundancy of O ( log N=N ). Obviously, the two fixed complexity approaches can be easily combined to achieve the better redundancy between the two. Simulation results support the analytical bounds derived for all the coding schemes.