<p>That the scope contains Statistics, Machine learning, Data mining and Visualization, as goes form this discussion: <a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/16/is-machine-learning-a-part-of-statistical-analysis">Is machine learning a part of statistical analysis?</a></p>
<p>Suggested wording:</p>
<h2>What kinds of questions can I ask here?</h2>
<p>This site is for statisticians, data miners, and anyone else doing data analysis. If you have a question about</p>
<ul>
<li>statistical analysis</li>
<li>data mining and machine learning</li>
<li>data visualization</li>
<li>statistical and data-driven computing (e.g., questions about R, SAS, SPSS, Stata and Minitab)</li>
</ul>
<p>then you're in the right place to ask your question.</p>
<p>Please do look around to see if your question has already been asked (and maybe even answered!) before you ask.</p>
<h2>What kind of questions should I not ask here?</h2>
<p>Avoid asking questions that are subjective, argumentative, or require extended discussion. This is not a discussion board, this is a place for questions that can be answered!</p>
<p>If you want to talk about the site itself, please don't do it here. Visit our <a href="http://meta.stats.stackexchange.com">meta-discussion site</a> where you can talk about things like what questions are appropriate, what tags we should use, suggest a feature, or generally discuss how stats.stackexchange.com works.</p>
<p>If your question is about …</p>
<ul>
<li>Programming, ask on <a href="http://stackoverflow.com">Stack Overflow</a></li>
<li>Mathematics, ask on <a href="http://math.stackexchange.com">math.stackexchange.com</a></li>
<li>Bugs in software, ask the people who produced the software</li>
</ul>
