<p>Once you get out of your first couple of stats classes (and maybe even before then), you're often doing stats with software. </p>

<p>I would assume that a lot of people who will come here (especially professionals, not so much students or academics) are probably looking for an answer like, "how do I do <em>such and such</em> in SAS or R"? Especially if this is going to be "statistical analysis" and not "statistical theory". </p>

<p>I work in a place with a few "stats guys" and a lot of programmers, and questions like that always come to the statisticians (it's always stuff like "where are the p_values in this output" or "how do I transform this variable so I can use it in a logistic regression procedure")</p>

<p>I would expect that stats-software questions to outnumber pure stats questions as this site progresses (might be wrong).</p>

<p>And, I think this is a better site for that type of thing than stack overflow. Hopefully, we'll see good software answers, with enough of the stats thrown in to give the "asker" a little bit of foundation. </p>

<p>I agree that Colin's example should go here, and I hope that it's answered with a primary focus on the stats, and secondary focus on algorithmic efficiency. </p>

<p>To me, any SAS, R, S+, SPSS, Stata, etc. question is perfectly valid here. </p>
