<p>There are many ways to promote good statistical practice. For example, one-on-one tutoring by experts would likely be invaluable to those receiving the tutoring, if a somewhat inefficient use of expert time. We may not be able to pursue every form of encouraging good practice within the goals of the SE network. CV's central purpose is a statistical question-and-answer site, so we need to keep that in mind.</p>

<p>Within that central purpose, I see two obvious ways to have some form of tutorial using the features of SE that are already available:</p>

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<li><p>The <a href="http://stats.blogoverflow.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">blog</a>. While the blog hasn't updated in a long time, several of the blog posts have elements of tutorial in them.</p>

<p>Tutorial posts aren't explicitly listed on the about page, I think it wouldn't take much to convince people to add it - currently the blog isn't being used at all, so why not?</p>

<p>An explanation about the blog and how you get to post to the blog is <a href="http://stats.blogoverflow.com/about/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>. You might have to get the mods to revive the chat mentioned there.</p></li>
<li><p>Questions and answers. If you see a burning need for a tutorial, you can frame it in the form of a question and answer (it's completely legitimate to answer your own questions). </p>

<p>Such a situation came up for me a while ago, when in the course of answering a question I needed to use interpolation, and realized the OP wouldn't know how to do that. (I'd previously answered several other questions with the same problem -- but to explain interpolation in a post which was primarily about something else would be getting too far off track.)</p>

<p>So I decided to put up a tutorial on interpolation in tables in the form of <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/64538/how-do-i-find-values-not-given-in-interpolate-in-statistical-tables">a question and answer</a> - one that I (or anyone else) could link to whenever needed, rather than giving an overly-brief half-baked explanation every time or pointers to less directly relevant material off site. </p>

<p>There are a few such questions-with-answers written by other people on the site (and I think we could stand to have more).</p>

<p>[If you're looking for tutorials with broader participation on a single good answer rather than a potential plethora of answers, you might even seek to set up some community wiki questions for the purpose.]</p></li>
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<p>Shorter tutorials would be well placed for Q&amp;A, longer tutorials would perhaps be better as blog posts. (But the 'post of the week' option on the blog allows for highlighting of questions/answers on the blog as well.)</p>

<p>If you do either of those things (organize blog post-tutorials or Q&amp;A tutorials), or manage to get others to do some (I'd love to see a few tutorials from some of the experts), I would be cheering.</p>

<p>Indeed, if there's a topic that there's an obvious need for a tutorial on, I could perhaps contribute one, or contribute to one, as long as it's something I know a little about.</p>
