<p>The suggestion makes sense but I have yet to make up my mind regarding whether it would be better to have an extra field for this or to amend the option</p>

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<p>to</p>

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<p>Probably not the best wording for it but it might be a starting point for an alternative suggestion.</p>

<p>As an additional comment I wonder whether we should migrate such questions at all. There is of course no doubt regarding ones in the spirit of</p>

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<li>"How do I do this thing in R/SPSS/Matlab/Stata"</li>
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<p>What I am thinking of are questions of the sort</p>

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<li>"I'm trying to program this estimator but I don't know where the error in my code is"</li>
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<p>because to figure this out it might require the statistical knowledge behind the given estimator or test statistic. I think this type of question would be better served here given that many of our users have extensive knowledge of statistical packages but rarely have the chance to apply this knowledge here in the statistics context. If anything this skill is mostly used for illustrating the theory behind something. But statistics shouldn't be just about the theory (only my view) and an important part is the application for which this kind of question would be useful. Maybe we are restricting ourselves too much by migrating too often.</p>
