On Tue, 8 Feb 2011, Martin Holt wrote:
> MedStats is a website created to answer statistical questions, and is
> especially good because any discussion related to such questions is
> shown openly, to members and non-members (you have to be a member to
> post a question but not to follow discussions). Another site that has
> caught my eye has "Area 51" in its title.
I think you might mean CrossValidated (http://stats.stackexchange.com/)
which is a member of the StackExchange group, see
http://stackexchange.com/sites.
Area 51 is just a staging area for these sites. They have to pass some
criteria before they are formally created. See
http://area51.stackexchange.com/
I've not used CrossValidated, but I've used other StackExchange sites,
and they seem to work pretty well, perhaps partly because of the
reward/validation system that has been set up.
> (AllStat seems to have changed its policy. A member could post a
> statistical question, receive answers offline and then summarise an
> answer to the list. That's why I created MedStats ~ for visible
> discussion. Given that there are a number of "statistical"
> websites, this makes sense).
I thought posting statistical questions to AllStat was ontopic too. Can
someone point me to a current policy document? I found
http://www.mathstore.ac.uk/?q=node/1446 which is fairly non-specific.
Regards, Faheem
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