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#1: Initial revision by user avatar JJJ‭ · 2024-05-14T07:46:20Z (6 months ago)
Would the following stats topics be in the scope of the math community?
Hello,

I've read the thread [Scope of site (comparison with CrossValidated)](https://math.codidact.com/posts/278314), and started thinking about launching a proposal for a "statistics" community on codidact (but maybe others have already thought about it?).

I identified the following topics that might not be in the scope of the math community, but I wonder what more experienced users than me think about it:



- correct use of statistical methods and their interpretation 
- meta-analysis
- sampling methods
- prior elicitation
- data mining
- natural language processing
- study design
- simulation
- data visualization
- ethics in statistics
- careers in statistics
- ...

There may be other topics I did not think of. 

Here are more specific examples of questions taken from [Cross Validated](https://stats.stackexchange.com):

- [When to use Fisher versus Neyman-Pearson framework?](https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/23142/when-to-use-fisher-versus-neyman-pearson-framework/)
- [Principled way of collapsing categorical variables with many levels?](https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/146907/principled-way-of-collapsing-categorical-variables-with-many-levels)
- [How to interpret a QQ plot?](https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/101274/how-to-interpret-a-qq-plot/)
- [Is there a good reason for a lab to repeat experiments instead of conducting a single larger blocked experiment?](https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/634900/is-there-a-good-reason-for-a-lab-to-repeat-experiments-instead-of-conducting-a-s)
- [Using post-stratification weights in R survey package](https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/146841/using-post-stratification-weights-in-r-survey-package)
- [Recommend references on survey sample weighting](https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/11018/recommend-references-on-survey-sample-weighting)
- [Why are p-values misleading after performing a stepwise selection?](https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/179941/why-are-p-values-misleading-after-performing-a-stepwise-selection)
- [Why does finding small effects in large studies indicate publication bias?](https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/393256/why-does-finding-small-effects-in-large-studies-indicate-publication-bias)
- [Eliciting priors from experts](https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/1/eliciting-priors-from-experts)
- [Avoiding social discrimination in model building](https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/386075/avoiding-social-discrimination-in-model-building)
- [What are some good references on the history of ethics in statistics?](https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/631673/what-are-some-good-references-on-the-history-of-ethics-in-statistics)
- [How to simulate artificial data for logistic regression?](https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/46523/how-to-simulate-artificial-data-for-logistic-regression)
- [Simulation of logistic regression power analysis - designed experiments](https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/35940/simulation-of-logistic-regression-power-analysis-designed-experiments)
- [Why is skip-gram better for infrequent words than CBOW?](https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/180548/why-is-skip-gram-better-for-infrequent-words-than-cbow)
- [How does Keras 'Embedding' layer work?](https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/270546/how-does-keras-embedding-layer-work)
- [How is the .similarity method in SpaCy computed?](https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/304217/how-is-the-similarity-method-in-spacy-computed)
- [How to produce a pretty plot of the results of k-means cluster analysis?](https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/31083/how-to-produce-a-pretty-plot-of-the-results-of-k-means-cluster-analysis)
- [When are Log scales appropriate?](https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/27951/when-are-log-scales-appropriate)
- [Having a job in data-mining without a PhD](https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/27495/having-a-job-in-data-mining-without-a-phd)


My underlying question is probably more something along the lines of "In the light of the above examples, do you think there is some room for a stats community on codidact? Or is it already in the scope of the math community?"