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I am imagining a distribution where mean is zero but there are few large observations in the positive side which are not very frequent. On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 8:29 PM Bert Gunter <bgunter.4...@gmail.com> wrote: > From the posting guide: > > "*R-help* is intended to be comprehensible to people who want to use R to > solve problems but who are not necessarily interested in or knowledgeable > about programming." > > This says to me that R-help is for general questions about R programming, > not statistics, though I grant you that the intersection is nonempty. > Nevertheless, purely statistical issues should be posted elsewhere, and > your query appears to be such. > > However, I'll just note: what does "centered at 0" mean for an asymmetric > distribution? I think you may need to reconsider Jeff's advice. > > > Cheers, > Bert > > > > Bert Gunter > > "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and > sticking things into it." > -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) > > On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 5:53 AM, Christofer Bogaso < > bogaso.christo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I could post in StackExchange for sure, however I dont think R-help >> posting >> guide discourage asking a question about Statistics, atleast formally. >> >> I could further clarify if my question is not elaborate enough. And many >> apologies if it is very trivial - however still I am looking for 2nd >> opinion on my question. >> >> Answer to Jeff's pointer - yes my distribution is assumed to be centered >> at >> 0. >> >> Thanks, >> >> On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 8:04 AM Hasan Diwan <hasan.di...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Christofer, >> > On Sat, 30 Jun 2018 at 12:54, Jeff Newmiller <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> >> > wrote: >> > > >> > > You should use Stack Exchange for questions about statistics. >> > >> > Specifically, https://stats.stackexchange.com/ -- H >> > -- >> > OpenPGP: >> > https://sks-keyservers.net/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xFEBAD7FFD041BBA1 >> > If you wish to request my time, please do so using >> > bit.ly/hd1AppointmentRequest. >> > Si vous voudrais faire connnaisance, allez a >> bit.ly/hd1AppointmentRequest. >> > >> > Sent from my mobile device >> > Envoye de mon portable >> > >> > ______________________________________________ >> > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> > PLEASE do read the posting guide >> > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
