[R] A question on Statistics

[Christofer Bogaso]

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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.4567 using 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
>
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> On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 5:53 AM, Christofer Bogaso <
> bogaso.christofer using 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.diwan using gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Christofer,
>> > On Sat, 30 Jun 2018 at 12:54, Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil using dcn.davis.ca.us>
>> > wrote:
>> > >
>> > > You should use Stack Exchange for questions about statistics.
>> >
>> > Specifically, https://stats.stackexchange.com/ -- H
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