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 ## Acknowledgments
 
 Guy Jacobs for the original development of the Zalpha statistics
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+## Community Guidelines
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+I am very open to feedback, bug reports and requests!
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+* If you have a bug to report or a new feature request, please create a new [issue](https://github.com/chorscroft/zalpha/issues) on GitHub.
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+* If you would like to contribute, please feel free to fork the project and create a [pull request](https://github.com/chorscroft/zalpha/pulls) on GitHub. A guide to how this works can be found [here](https://guides.github.com/activities/forking/).
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+* If you have any other feedback or need support, please email the author.