[Haskell-cafe] Off-topic: Mathematics

[Jack Henahan]

Statistics questions tend to end up on http://stats.stackexchange.com/, so you could try that, too. It's a well-informed community.

Jack Henahan
jhenahan at uvm.edu
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On Aug 30, 2011, at 2:04 PM, Andrew Coppin wrote:

> On 29/08/2011 01:13 PM, Christopher Done wrote:
>> There's also #math on freenode, but it's a scary wilderness.
>> 
>> On 29 August 2011 13:34, Benedict Eastaugh<ionfish at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> On 29 August 2011 09:34, Andrew Coppin<andrewcoppin at btinternet.com>  wrote:
>>>> This is fairly wildly off-topic but... does anybody know of a good forum
>>>> where I can ask questions about mathematics and get authoritative answers?
>>> 
>>> Apart from math.stackexchange.com and mathoverflow.net, which people
>>> have already mentioned, people often discuss mathematics on
>>> #haskell-blah on Freenode.
> 
> I know of several places where I can ask maths questions and half a dozen people will take guesses at what the correct solution might be. I haven't yet found anywhere where I can say "when would a chi-squared test be more appropriate than a KS test?" and get an informed, knowledgeable answer. (Answers from people who /know/ what they're talking about rather than just /think/ they know.)
> 
> Anyway, from this thread I've got the names of a few places to start looking. And that's really what I was hoping for. Thanks for the tips.
> 
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