Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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Unanswered questions
I know this has been discussed here on CV meta before, but the most recent discussion I can find is quite old, so I thought it might be worth a new question.
We have a lot of unanswered questions. ...
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Is it on topic to ask about derivation of mathematical statistical formulae?
I am studying multilevel/hierarchical models and I have trouble deriving the mathematical formulae for certain models. Is it on topic to ask about this ? I mean, I fit a model with software, and I ...
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How to request reason for closing
My question was closed for lack of enough detail and no private feedback was provided as to what detail is exactly missing, which is not how I read it is supposed to be. Even though I cannot think of ...
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How to vote on partial answers?
At times I see that someone will provide an answer that, while not directly addressing all of the points in a question, will nonetheless give a good insight on something that is either partially ...
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Distribution of question and answer votes on CV
My question is simple theoretically, but probably not so simple practically...
Is there a way to check the distribution of question votes vs answer votes on CV? My assumption is that people are more ...
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Why were my "no longer needed" comment flags declined?
Today, I needed to search about fitting discrete distributions on my mobile device; I ended up in the thread How to fit a discrete distribution to count data?, which was indeed quite relevant.
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Feedback on question: E-commerce - Does higher delivery time lead to lower sales?
I've recently asked a question E-commerce - Does higher delivery time lead to lower sales?. In this question I ask for help on finding appropriate statistical methods on a problem that I am facing. My ...
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What is the proper way to delete your own answer?
There are times when I answer here -- but, upon further reflection, it is clear that I'm not the best person to answer the question (because of lack of expertise or just confusion about the question). ...
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Do we want to volunteer for the alpha test on lowering rep requirements for voting?
SO is looking for some sites where they would experimentally lower the rep requirement for voting to 1.
Do we want to volunteer?
I would suggest up- and downvotes on this question to stand for "...
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What's the difference between "needs more details or clarity" vs. "needs more focus"?
I often get locked into comment stalemates trying to get specific conditions on open-ended questions so that there is a clear answer or two to address the question. The problem arises when posters ...
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Do we have a canonical Q&A for deriving KL divergence for two Gaussians?
The question of deriving the KL divergence of two Gaussians appears frequently. It arises especially often in the context of variational auto-encoders, because the essential paper on the topic by ...
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Confusion about reopen vote with no actual edits shown
I sometimes see a reopen vote in the queue that looks something like this:
Here I see that the question has been edited, which is why I assume it is now in the reopen queue. But I don't see anything ...
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Suspension and length of suspension of irrespective of user merits?
I stumbled upon a user with a record of popular and interesting questions to have been suspended because of low-quality posts for a year.
I find this drastic, in particular in view of the user's ...
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Moderator using *nuclear* option
My question Clustering vectors of unequal size was unilaterally closed by a moderator less than an hour after it was published. While the question might require some improvement or might be even too ...
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Is it OK to share codes in the answers
A short while ago my first question was closed because it was about programming (well, it wasn't my intent but I understand why, so I deleted the question). Now, I wonder if it is OK sharing codes in ...
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What to do with the [sequence-analysis] tag?
I find this tag is often being misused, at least according to it's excerpt, the original Meta thread and also the tag wiki.
Currently, sequence-analysis reads:
[Excerpt] Analysis of a DNA, RNA, or ...
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Bounty community wiki?
I want to get an answer to our new quantile regression community wiki that addresses a particular aspect of quantile regression that is not being addressed in the current answers, so I thought I’d ...
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How much has the traffic of CV fallen over the past one and half years?
Over the past one and a half years, Stack Overflow has lost around 50% 35% of its traffic (Update: Around 15% of the observed loss seems to be related to the recategorization of the Google Analytics ...
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How can we encourage new users to edit their closed posts?
New or inexperienced users are sometimes faced with their question (or answer) being closed without any detailed feedback, or even without any comments on their post.
While this is definitely the way ...
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Should this question about the Monty Hall problem and odds ratios be closed as off-topic?
Recently I asked the question: How to reason about the Monty Hall problem with odds ratios? It was closed due to being deemed off-topic. I'd like to challenge that decision.
The two reasons that were ...
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Is it on topic to ask about how implementations of a certain algorithm deal with certain problems?
For instance, would the following question be on-topic?
In the context of training a decision tree, let $Y$ be the dependent
variable and $X_1, \dots X_d$ the independent variables.
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Non-English recommendations of books on mathematical and theoretical statistics or probability? [closed]
There is a large number of questions asking for recommendations of textbooks and material on these fields. Unsurprisingly, given the language of this site and most of its audience, resources are ...
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Really confused about this constant edit suggestion
I keep seeing a user in the Suggested Edits queue doing the exact same edit to several questions, such as this one here.
It always has the same typo "Thanks in Adavanced" and the deleted ...
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Should quote only answers be treated like link only answers?
As the question suggests, I'm unsure of what to do with flagged answers that only have a quotation and no other commentary. For context, I came across a review today with this answer, which fits this ...
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How can I improve my off-topic question?
I recently posted this question and it was quickly closed as off-topic. Could anyone offer any advice as to how this question may be improved, if it is at all salvageable? This will help me with ...
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June 5 General Moderation Strike: Recap, Possible roles, consequences and other relevant info
I won't beat the bush here: for cognizance of the community, I would briefly state all the recent events that unfolded over the past week or so. And then (my personal opinion) there would be a message ...
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Spam-poster on the loose: Flag, VTC, Both?
We have someone on the loose right now who is making post after post that is grossly off-topic. What is the most helpful action for users to take when we see this? Should we vote to close to hit the ...
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how to make this a better focused question
I have a question about my Cross Validated post: How to set up my workflow and data for my first network model
Hello,
I would appreciate help. I am trying to ask a question, but I don't understand ...
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Delete [analysis] tag?
I recently encountered analysis and found it to be a bit confusing and unnecessary, despite the detailed tag info. I then discovered this meta thread about it from 2015 that proposed creating the tag:
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Possible loss of some images from posts owing to Imgur's plan to remove old, unowned content with low views
Imgur TOS change on May 15th 2023 could cause the loss of thousands of Stack Exchange images!
Note first that images with https://i.stack.imgur.com or ...
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Editing an old answer or adding a new answer: which is more appropriate in this case?
I came across an old question
Computing p-value using bootstrap with R
and I thought that the answers might benefit from a graphical presentation.
I liked the answer by Jan S. which shares my idea ...
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Are we free labor for OpenAI?
Recently, I’ve seen a number of CV users plugging questions into ChatGPT to help generate answers/content. Some of these users self-report to be educators. So, here’s the question:
When we turn ...
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How to identify "sleepy" questions?
Is there any value of ensuring the site retains only answerable questions, and if a question is in fact answerable, is it the responsibility of the community or the moderators to find these questions ...
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Adding a tag for general (non-specific) questions
I think this site could be improved by the addition of a tag for a "general" question, or a "non-specific" question.
This tag could be used when the person asking the question is ...
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Programming or data request confusion
I haven't been reviewing long, but it seems like almost daily I see questions closed due to programming or data requests. But to me the majority of these are more often statistical questions rather ...
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Can anyone explain the reasoning for this migration away from Cross Validated?
This question:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75944119/variance-of-truncated-normal-distribution
asks how to read a formula in order to perform a particular calculation. As I read it, it's not a ...
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Can there be a "new in stats" thread or wiki added somewhere here?
I'm not entirely sure how good this idea is, but basically there have been a few times here where, as a by-product of answering/asking a question, I learn about something fairly new in statistics that ...
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Do we need the Drug tag, or can it be discarded?
Do we need the drug tag? It has no wiki, and only 6 questions. "Drugs" are not a statistical topic. While it's true that there are statistical components to medical research about the ...
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Tags for questions involving ChatGPT
We will see more and more questions that involve ChatGPT, in two ways:
Questions about the inner workings of ChatGPT and similar Large Language Models (LLMs)
Questions about "advice" ...
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Downvoting a new member
I just downvoted a post (now deleted) by a new member who has a reputation of one.
Downvoting cost me some reputation, but it also cost that user some reputation, or at least it would have if that ...
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If and how to ask about soliciting domain knowledge relevant to priors
One of the less precisely-defined (mathematically or otherwise) aspects of performing Bayesian inference is assignment of priors based on domain knowledge, and there are plenty of questions on ...
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To what extent are questions about survey methodology and design appropriate?
I was thinking about asking for academic references relative to conducting a survey on the human population that frequents a transit neighborhood (transit neighborhood may be particularly challenging ...
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2022: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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Are questions about ethical use of statistics on-topic?
A strong majority of the questions I have seen on this site relate to technical aspects of statistics such as mathematics, algorithms, and sample design. I am curious if questions about ethics are on-...
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What's the policy on Human/AI collaboration for answering questions?
On Kaggle, recently there is a person who's been answering questions with what is likely customized AI. It's not Chat GPT, but probably something more boutique / hand rolled, and possibly a result of ...
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How to improve attention to interesting/advanced, but complex/difficult, questions?
TL;DR The system promotes popular questions, but popular might not need to align with characteristics that are desirable. Especially complex and difficult questions might be very desirable, but ...
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A broad question has many near duplicates — How to decide whether to suggest it for closing?
This weekend a question got asked about exploratory analysis and p-hacking:
Is "Exploratory Data Analysis" Fundamentally At Odds With "P-Hacking"?
This is a broad topic to begin ...
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What Questions are acceptable in the Machine Learning section of Cross Validated?
I posted a question on here recently that was closed:
I was unsure if it fit into this site anyway, so I'm fine with it being closed. But it left me wondering, what is an acceptable Machine Learning ...
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Where can we see and learn about the Winter Bash 2022 hats?
I earned hats on CV!
I earned secret hats on CV!
Where are these secrets divulged? This is very important stuff, people!
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Multiple answers to same question (follow-up)
As a follow-up to this post and its related comments & answers, I wonder what's the correct action to take when we encounter the issue. For instance, I came across a post that contains two answers ...
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