# Welcome to datamethods

**URL:** <https://discourse.datamethods.org/t/welcome-to-datamethods/8>\
**Category:** general\
**Created:** [July 12, 2018, 4:49pm UTC](https://discourse.datamethods.org/t/welcome-to-datamethods/8 "2018-07-12T16:49:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![system](https://discourse.datamethods.org/uploads/default/original/2X/b/bc54212b83f44a295bd46e390e4b0bee5e0a9981.svg) [@system](https://discourse.datamethods.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2018, 4:49pm UTC](https://discourse.datamethods.org/t/welcome-to-datamethods/8/1 "2018-07-12T16:49:20Z")

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This is a place where statisticians, epidemiologists, informaticists, machine learning practitioners, and other research methodologists communicate with themselves and with clinical, translational, and health services researchers to discuss issues related to data: research methods, quantitative methods, study design, measurement, statistical analysis, interpretation of data and statistical results, clinical trials, journal articles, statistical graphics, causal inference, medical decision making, and more. To post you must register, providing your **real** first and last names. General non-health-related stat questions should go to [stats.stackexchange.com](http://stats.stackexchange.com). See [site rationale](http://fharrell.com/post/disc).

`datamethods` is sponsored by [Frank Harrell Consulting](https://hbiostat.org).

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**Author:** ![f2harrell](https://discourse.datamethods.org/user_avatar/discourse.datamethods.org/f2harrell/32/165_2.png) [@f2harrell](https://discourse.datamethods.org/u/f2harrell)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2018, 12:21pm UTC](https://discourse.datamethods.org/t/welcome-to-datamethods/8/2 "2018-07-24T12:21:31Z")

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