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Is the "uncertainty" tag tantamount to epistemic/aleatoric and is their distinction actually philosophy?
Disclaimer: I haven't had a quality Bayesian training.
I understand how, for the frequentist, the "normal" error is a smoke-in-mirrors things, where randomness arises from lack of precise ...
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Question with 4 upvotes, answers, and granted bounty was deleted by a bot
I did a question in MSE that got migrated to CrossValidated, where the question got 4 upvotes, got a few interesting answers, and even I granted a bounty to one of them.
The question keep growing as I ...
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Are efficiency questions valid here?
I have asked the following question which was closed as being the duplicate and never reopened no matter how I tried to stress the difference between it and the quoted one: Adding new variable to a ...
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Advertising test to begin on December 3, 2024
We’ve been exploring the concept of using open auction to manage advertising on some Stack Exchange sites. Under this model, advertisers (who have been organized into categories based on their ...
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Should we flag a question that links to a scanned copy of a book?
It happens from time to time that a question, an answer or a comment links to a (scanned) pdf of a book (or a paper, but book seems esp. problematic). I write a comment asking the author to fix their ...
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Would the question be better here?
I'm confident you could write a Question about this suitable for
Math.SE, but it would be expeditious to have a look at sister site
CrossValidated (stats.se). Tags should be a secondary concern.
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Appropriateness of adding a tag to a question when the issue is not specifically asked about, but comes up in an answer [duplicate]
Apologies for the long title.
I have been adding the regression-to-the-mean tag to old questions where it is asked about, but I notice several questions that don't mention it specifically, but the ...
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How to find the URL for an answer
I used to be able to obtain the URL for an answer, or a comment, by right-clicking on the relevant timestamp and choosing "Copy Link". For answers, that doesn't work for me now. However, it ...
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Why was this question deleted by the community bot?
Here is the question, for those who have access to it: Paired test on nominal data in a non-squared contingency table in R
This question was closed on the grounds of lacking enough details, which is ...
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Tag name for pseudoreplication is misspelt
I just noticed that pseudorepliction ought to be pseudoreplication. Can we create a tag with the correct spelling and make the misspelt one a synonym?
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What should we do about the "learning" tag?
The learning tag has no usage guidance, and seems to be a bit ambiguous or at least too general. Here are a few examples of questions using it:
Bayesian Learning: Finding the variance of noise
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Increase in random upvotes on old answers over the last months
So I got my first random upvote on an old answer in May which was cool, but this(2 upvotes, not the accepted answer) is not the answer I would have expected to get that.
Then I got another one in June,...
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What does "Serial voting was reversed" mean? [duplicate]
Lost 10 reputation due to "serial voting" and wondered what it is, and why is it an issue?
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Serial voting reversed
Today I checked CV and saw that I lost 270 reputation (and the associated marks towards badges) based off serial voting. I'm confused how this can be possible. Surely I would have noticed someone ...
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Why was this thread deleted, and is there anything to do about it?
Yesterday, I answered a very basic question about the interpretation of percentages, and got a couple of upvotes from my answer. I don't have the original link to the question, but if it can help ...
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When is it appropriate to critique asker's methods? When is it appropriate to tell the asker to work for themselves?
I just offered this answer on a user's question: Analyzing review rating using R STM package - sample balance issue and I feel a pang of guilt discrediting an article they cite. I tried to provide the ...
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Are discussions on the editorial content of stats-wikipedia in scope for cross-validated?
Following this question and other random internet searches, I have scrolled quite a bit through the stat pages of wikipedia. Some pages are really good, but a bunch of topics are very poorly presented ...
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Language-specific code blocks versus default code blocks
I've sometimes noticed in the Suggested Edits queue, and even in some code I have written here, that this suggestions is often pushed forward, where it appears the code block already used includes the ...
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Deleted recent question
Till yesterday there was a question on "Alternative of SD and variance for non-normal variables". I was following the interesting answers, but suddenly I find that "This question was ...
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non-question reply as a technical dialog, but more than a comment
Background:
A made this question years ago:
AIC on Savitzky-Golay width
This is a great answer, look at the mathjax, the graphs, and the code.
AIC on Savitzky-Golay width
Request:
I want to reply to ...
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Biased moderation?
community!
I've been successfully using StackExchange platform for years: helping and being helped. Below you will find the data about my reputation.
Recently I stack with the task of calculating ...
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Tag for "structural zeros"?
There are frequent questions on CV about how to deal with structural zeros. Most recently, this question asked about how to use a variable for "spouse's education" when many people have no ...
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Disagreement over classification as duplicate
Yesterday I opened a question, When authors write "model of the data" is this a shorthand for "model of the data generating process", that was marked duplicate of Why do we use ...
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How should we address suggested edits that include copyrighted images?
I stumbled upon a suggestion for an edit that only added a copyrighted image to an answer, presumably without the authors' consent.
I rejected the edit on this basis (as supposedly it would harm the ...
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I'm resigning as a moderator
I've been a moderator for a few years, but now I'm not really active neither as a member of CrossValidated, nor as a moderator, so I'm not the best candidate for the role anymore. That's the first ...
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Should I accept an answer and if so which one? All useful; none give obvious way forward
I asked a question that got quite a lot of attention and plenty of answers (perhaps in part because I managed to use a subject that was click-baity but appropriate): Having a second bite of the data-...
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What are the effects of using one's full name on cross validated versus a first name or a pseudonym?
There are some effects of using one's full name on Cross Validated versus a first name, a pen name or a pseudonym. For example, ChatGPT output some rather complimentary statements concerning "...
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Confusion about nonlinear tags
There are often questions about nonlinear data here, but I find the tags available are confusing. To my best knowledge there are three tags for this: nonlinear-regression, nonlinearity, and nonlinear. ...
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What do I need to improve on the 645648 ID question so that I have a better chance of getting an answer?
What do I need to improve on this question Interpretation of this learning rate finder plot$^\dagger$ to have a better chance of getting an answer?
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Amending the "closed as duplicate" message?
Currently, the closed-as-duplicate message states:
This question already has answers here:
followed by a link to the duplicated question(s).
However, it happens that someone who asked the question ...
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Should we close questions asking for help with model interpretation if the general issue has been discussed elsewhere?
Some questions on this site are of the basic form: "I ran this model and I don't know how to interpret these results." The individuals who ask these sorts of questions sometimes have a ...
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Could we have a canonical post on the interpretation of confidence intervals?
Interpretation of confidence intervals in both frequentist and Bayesian formalisms (credible intervals) have been a constant and repeated source of queries over the years at CV.
Every now and then, ...
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Updating own answers
I have old answers here that would really profit from an edit, e.g. linking to later answers, or to other resources I have become aware of. What should I do here?
I could edit the answer. That would ...
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Off-topic message: why is the Open Data website so prominent?
The "off-topic" message when a question is closed currently reads as follows:
This question appears to be off-topic because it focuses on
programming, debugging, or performing routine ...
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Did someone... clone... a question?
We just got a question How do I compare the results between two different Likert Scales questionnaires? from a newly registered user. Under "Related", I see a question asked four years ago: ...
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Is this really a Wiki?
Is this question really qualified as a "wiki" question?
Frequentist probability: Can we prove mathematically what we are setting probabilities equal to, or are they just assumptions/...
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Shall we edit the Help Centre page on generative A.I.?
S.E. have added a new help page on the use of generative A.I. to write answers:
https://stats.stackexchange.com/help/ai-policy
I think what's lacking is any reminder that whoever posts an answer is ...
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Recommended visualization libraries question - on topic?
We have an antique question (asked in 2011): Recommended visualization libraries for standalone applications. Yes, we do have our data-visualization tag, and this one asks about visualizing data (not, ...
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Could we have a tag for question about books?
The tag "references" is about requests for references. Fine. That's a useful tag. But the tags "textbooks" and "books" are synonyms of that tag. That leaves us with no ...
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Are Scihub or Mega/Google Docs articles allowed on CV?
Was just curious about this question today because I have sometimes seen that people here will ask for article links which include whatever is relevant to their statistical questions. Sometimes this ...
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Why do statistics journals generally have low impact factors, long publication times, and low acceptance rates? [closed]
Disclaimer: I realize this could be perceived as off-topic, but wanted to get perspectives from those directly in the field. If this question gets closed, I understand.
I've been investigating ...
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2023: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here might be ...
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Is it off-topic to ask for examples of situations where a lack of statistical understanding causes a problem in data science
Sorry for the long-winded question title. During interviews for a junior data scientist position I have noticed that almost every interviewer I have talked to (not recruiters or "talent managers&...
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Should we have a "nonlinear multilevel analysis" tag?
The title basically tells it. Multilevel models are pretty popular as a question topic and it might be good to have a separate tag for the nonlinear type. But I'm not sure if it's needed.
Link to ...
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How to detect and address wayward trends in questions?
I've noticed several questions popping up recently on the topic of Bayesian Optimization. Many of the questions are bizarre, full of misconceptions, and (as some moderators have noted) perfect ...
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Should we opt for the banner warning the usage of AI-generated contents?
A new banner highlighting the policy on using AI-generated material has been developed and experimentally used (has been graduated) at SO and it has resulted$^\dagger$ in
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Chatgpt and similar chat bots are trained using CV content. Did we agree to it?
When we started contributing to CV we did not foresee the content would be used to train chat bots and that chat bots would be as profitable as they are.
Did we consent to the content to be used to ...
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Google Cloud will be Sponsoring Cross Validated SE
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What to do with questions that have bad or incomplete code?
Many people include code in either their questions or their answers, in R or Python or some other language. That's fine. I'm not talking about questions that fall under the 'asking for code' category.
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Bug: MathJax/LaTeX mathbb font in array
I recently answered a question using the following code
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