<p>So that this question ends up with an answer:</p>

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  <p>Am I correct that my question falls into the category of "OR it focuses on programming, debugging, or performing routine operations within a statistical computing platform"?</p>
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<p>Yes.</p>

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  <p>If so, would it be appropriate to migrate this question to stackoverflow?</p>
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<p>Only if it meets the conditions to be on topic there*. Many programming questions do not (a lot fail by asking about problems but not providing a small reproducible example)</p>

<p>* we're not supposed to migrate questions which will simply close at the destination; indeed if it is closed there it will usually just bounce straight back. [In typically terse and colourful language often associated with programmer forums, this is usually expressed as "don't migrate crap"; the term tends to be used even with otherwise good questions that don't meet the site's standards.]</p>

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  <p>Would it perhaps be a good idea to automatically allow such migrations? </p>
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<p>You can flag for migration to any other site; if it seems to meet the topic and standards of the target site, we'll migrate for you. This is the preferred method (over deletion and reposting).</p>

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  <p>I know some other stackexchange sites allow users to vote by saying "this is off topic and it belongs to this other stackexchange site".</p>
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<p>So does ours.</p>

<p>Sometimes our users with sufficient reputation will vote to close with a "off-topic/migrate" reason rather than the option under which yours closed -- but if it's going to close there anyway, the people on the receiving end (rightly) see it as us <a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1305/please-do-not-migrate-low-quality-questions/">simply wasting their time</a>. </p>

<p>I don't know that there's a need for any other migration pathway than the usual methods. Flagging is usually fast.</p>

<p>If you do ask a software related question here and it closes, here's what you do:</p>

<ol>
<li><p>consider whether it can be made clearly on-topic here; if so edit accordingly</p></li>
<li><p>if there's a stats/ML part and a programming (say) part; if so, split it into two questions, keeping the stats one here and posting the other in a suitable forum. You can always link the two if need be.</p></li>
<li><p>if it's already clearly on-topic elsewhere on SE, flag to migrate</p></li>
<li><p>if it could be made on topic elsewhere, edit then flag</p></li>
<li><p>finally, if it's not on topic on SE, consider the support forums (and other resources) that are mentioned in our close-reason text.</p></li>
</ol>
