<p>The question is appropriate, but whether it would have received the answer, I cannot say, since you never know. In general this question is definitely a better fit here than in MO, since it is more "applied". </p>

<p>The problem with  the question is that it can be answered only by researcher which is familiar with the terminology, although it seems that the author might really have problem with something simple. It always helps to make the question self-sufficient as possible. In this case if the exact procedure would have been outlined (something like: suppose we have the sample $X$, we use the model $M$, we seek to estimate the quantity $\theta$, with the following steps, and I do not get the idea in this exact step) then the question would not have been closed as too localised.</p>

<p>In general CrossValidated is less hostile place (in a sense that tolerance level is higher for poorly formulated questions) than MO, but looking at the comments and the attitude displayed by the author of the question, I suspect that the outcome might have been similar.</p>
