<p>It is best to be very sparing with details not needed to understand your question. Your question should stand on its own as a technical question. Lengthy personal details or personal pleas don't usually help and may even make your question less likely to be answered.</p>

<p>In particular be sparing with </p>

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<li><p>Salutations. Initial greetings are not needed. </p></li>
<li><p>Personal details or history. A little detail can make your question vivid and you appear human, and that's fine, but your precise personal situation and/or knowledge of and/or ignorance of statistics need not be spelled out at length. It's fine to say that you are a learner or very new to some field, for example, and that can be said in one sentence. </p></li>
<li><p>Closing comments on how much you would appreciate our help. We appreciate that you want to be polite and courteous, but your gratitude is taken as read. Wording such as "Thanks in advance" or "I would be very grateful for any help" is not needed and won't make us more likely to answer your question. </p></li>
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<p>Put all your effort into improving your post as a clear, concise but also suitably detailed technical question. </p>
