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Statistical Analysis StackExchange site now available

Published on 27 July 2010

The Q&A site for sta­tis­ti­cal analy­sis, data min­ing, data visu­al­iza­tion, and every­thing else to do with data analy­sis has finally been launched. Please head over to

stats​.Stack​Ex​change​.com

and start ask­ing and answer­ing questions.

Also, spread the word to every­one else who may be inter­ested — work col­leagues, stu­dents, etc. The more peo­ple who use the site, the bet­ter it will be. There are already 170 ques­tions, 513 answers and 387 users.

Even­tu­ally the site will move to a dif­fer­ent domain name and have its own logo, etc.  For now it is in “pub­lic beta” which means that it is fully func­tional, but we are still work­ing out some of the details (such as what it will be called, who will be the mod­er­a­tors, etc.).

R ques­tions are allowed on this new site as well as on the orig­i­nal Stack​Over​flow​.com. We are still fig­ur­ing out how to avoid the prob­lem of hav­ing answers on two sites. For now, more sta­tis­ti­cal ques­tions should be directed to stats​.Stack​Ex​change​.com and more programming-​​oriented ques­tions should go to Stack​Over​flow​.com.


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4 Comments  comments 
  • http://www.r-statistics.com Tal Galili

    Thank you Rob for putting all the work you have into this.

    Con­grat­u­la­tions to all of us.

    All the best,
    Tal

  • http://knowledgecaps.com J. Murali

    All the best!!
    Here is the link to the pro­posal for a QA ser­vice on R– pack­age: http://​area51​.stack​ex​change​.com/​p​r​o​p​o​s​a​l​s​/​1​5​2​3​7​/​r​-​s​t​a​t​i​s​t​i​c​a​l​-​p​a​ckage. Sup­port it if you feel it is rel­e­vant.
    Thanks.

    • http://robjhyndman.com Rob J Hyndman

      The Sta­tis­ti­cal Analy­sis site cov­ers R pack­ages so I see no need for a sep­a­rate site.

  • http://onertipaday.blogspot.com Paolo

    I agree with Rob, the Sta­tis­ti­cal Analy­sis site looks VERY R ori­ented so I think that is bet­ter to focus on this resource also for all the R pack­ages related to statistics.

    I’d like to use the occa­sion to thank Rob Hyn­d­man to allow the birth of this use­ful new resource! Thanks Rob!