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From: hubert@entropy.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.general,net.news.group
Subject: Proposed new group, net.stat
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Date: Fri, 18-May-84 19:02:51 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 18 19:02:51 1984
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Members of several statistics departments have been discussing
the creation of a newsgroup for statistics for some time.  There
are several people on the net interested in statistics because of
the close relationship between it and computing.  Theoretical
statistics is also interesting on its own merit.

The group (net.stat) would be used mainly for discussion of
statistical software.  Many discussions would probably center
around S, the interactive statistics system developed by Becker and
Chambers at Bell Labs.  Another segment of the group would be similar
to net.math in that discussions of theoretical aspects of statistics
would take place.  We have monitored net.math and have decided that
it is not an appropriate forum for us.  I expect there are also
several USENET sites that have many users who would be interested in
discussions of statistical software even though they are not
statisticians per se.
				Steve Hubert
				Dept. of Statistics, U. of Wash.
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