Scope of site (comparison with CrossValidated)
For those of you familiar with Stack Exchange's Cross Validated, are the types of questions posted on that site suitable for this one?
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Here you are a scope definition of this site. Currently:
Our community for people interested in theoretical and applied mathematics and statistics.
Welcome!
Mathematics is a new community and so its scope is still being defined. Discussion on the community proposal included this as a starting point, which the community here should further refine:
Scope for this site would include:
- all branches of theoretical and applied math: algebra, category theory, arithmetic and number theory, combinatorics, topology, measure theory and probability, calculus and analysis, statistics, complexity theory, automata theory, etc.
- closely-adjacent sciences where the central question is about the math (e.g. "help me with this calculus to solve this physics problem" should be fine, but not "which equation should I use for this physics problem")
- math tools (e.g. software packages) if the question is about the math (e.g. "what's the difference between these two R packages' implementations of Student's t test" and not "what's the difference between these two R packages' implementations of text justification")
I am, myself, none of a mathematician, a statistician, or a data scientist, so I'm passing along this starting point and hoping the experts here will improve it.
One good way to test scope is to look at some real questions, so if you're willing to ask some "trial balloons", please do.
See also Software Development; if you have questions that are more about implementation (how to program an ML algorithm in Python, for instance), that's probably a better fit. Algorithms themselves sound more like math/stats to me.
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