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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I am suspending my activity as a moderator
It is difficult for me to write this. I regret suspending my activity in this way. However, I cannot continue at present with the ongoing situation and Stack Exchange's actions (or lack thereof).
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What to do if we need to update a question if there's already answering effort?
I put a lot of effort into a question about difficulties in reproducing a specific algorithm. I got stuck in one step, was able to (probably) find a solution myself, but got stuck again in a next step....
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What should the description for our general chat room be?
Our general chat room is Ten fold. We sometimes describe it as being, "just for gossip and grumbles". People occasionally ask substantive statistics or machine learning questions there, and we often ...
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FYI: A second apology from SE has been posted
An apology to our community, and next steps
A good sign. Hopefully they will follow through well and all mods who have resigned will return, assuming they want to.
Glen_b has already referred to ...
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Moderator resignation
Additional update:
My diamond was removed something in the ballpark of an hour ago, as per my request from last week. Thanks for your understanding, everyone.
Some updates:
(1) I signed this letter....
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what is an answer versus a comment to a self-study question
We don't just post answers to self-study questions where we give the proof of whatever the OP is asking. I think this is a good policy. However, that seems to mean that any post in response to a self-...
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Is there a way to bump questions asked by other users?
This question seems to handle if its one's own post : Is there a polite /accepted way of "bumping" up questions?
I'm wondering about what the best approach is if I see an old question that ...
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Usage guidance for software-specific tags
Our usage guidance for the r tag is nice and clear:
Use this tag for any on-topic question that (a) involves R either
as a critical part of the question or ...
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If I didn't get an answer about statistics on math.stackexachange should I post duplicate on stats.stack?
I asked a question on math.stackexchange.com and I didn't receive any answer.
Can I post it on stats.stackexchange? The question is from category statistics, numerics and algorithms.
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New tag for ethics? Or is there already a tag which can be used?
There are some questions on site which are also about professional ethics. Some examples: Ethics of publishing covariate matrix, Likert Scale - Treatment of Neutral or Mid-Point of 5-Pt Scale (and ...
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Is Cross Validated an appropriate place to ask for examples of meta-analysis done well?
I'm teaching myself how to do meta-analysis, and as a beginner to the subject I would like to read journal article examples of meta-analysis done well.
It's easy enough to find examples of meta-...
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Can a question classified as community wiki be rolled back to a standard question?
Does LASSO suffer from the same problems stepwise regression does? is a well-received cromulent question I asked in June. The question has received several helpful comments pointing to insightful ...
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Quant.SE is no longer in Beta. Can we add it as a migration target?
Occasionally we get questions with no statistical content, such as
Return on bonds and stocks
So our choices are to either close as off-topic or migrate. But right now, only a mod could migrate ...
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Are new answerers feeling like they “speak into the void”? And can we help?
It is known that CV has a large and growing number of unanswered questions. If that is to improve, increasing the number of people who answer questions and/or help clean up (downvote, edit, comment) ...
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What is the difference between crossvalidated and data science? [duplicate]
I often have to choose where to post a question and since Crossvalidated is present for a while, I stick with this site.
But is there any separataion?
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Asking about which hypothesis testing technique? - My question is on hold
How should my question be rephrased such that you will reopen it?
3+ dependent variables, which test for measuring dependency?
I'm essentially trying to figure out how to show the relationship ...
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Why is my question still on hold?
Edit (for completeness)
The discussion was about a question I asked that was put on hold. The reasons for closure and what is needed to reopen the question is answered in the many comments below. ...
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Is it on topic for a question to ask for a canonical example?
I want to ask a question with the title Is there a canonical example demonstrating the difference between predictive and explanatory models?
I have ideas about the body of this question, with some ...
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Why is my question “Can a human be intellectual property?” still closed? [closed]
I have a question about my Cross Validated post: Can a human be intellectual property? Why is it still closed?
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Do we have a canonical thread that explains how to interpret 2- and 3-way interactions?
There are a number of questions posted by new users asking how to interpret basic linear model output with interactions. An example from just now: One main effect is positive while other is negative ...
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Should we de-synonymize dummy-variable-trap and categorical-encoding?
Sorry for bringing this up again.
I created a dummy-variable-trap tag yesterday. As I wrote, I was doubtful that synonymizing it to categorical-encoding is helpful. By now I am not doubtful any more:...
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Do we need a “dummy variable trap” tag?
To be honest, I was not even aware of the term "dummy variable trap" until a few days ago, but it seems like the term is popping up more and more frequently at CV (note chonological ordering).
Do we ...
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Is this question about categorical features on-topic?
The question Suggestions on using model in production 1 test at a time was closed as off-topic.
To my mind, the question content is squarely about the generalizability of a specific kind of feature (...
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Is the [modeling] tag useful?
modeling is the 40th most popular tag, having been applied to 1820 questions so far. But I quickly scanned through a handful of the tagged questions and it didn't seem particularly helpful in any of ...
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Incorrect use of the reliability tag, we need a more informative tag name?
The reliability tag is meant for reliability of measurements, but today Calculating Failure Rate with Some Failure Cause Data being Vague (and certainly before) somebody used it in the meaning of "...
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Create a canonical question/answer for questions of the form 'Is my $R^2$/AUC/etc. good'?
I see a fair number of these questions from new members wanting to know how to interpret their model result. This is usually followed by a series of comments explaining that there is no general way to ...
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Should we start redirecting “why are my forecasts shifted one step ahead from the actuals” questions to a community wiki?
It seems like almost every other day now, we get a new post with somebody asking the question: "My forecasts look very good, they almost follow the actual to the letter, except that they are shifted ...
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Request to reopen too broad question about standard/best practice for dealing with discovered ancillary patterns not hypothesized
A couple of days ago I asked the question on main
When conducting a study, what is standard practice with patterns you find along the way? and it was put on hold earlier this morning as 'too broad'.
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Is there a machine learning StackExchange?
Is there a research-level machine learning site in the StackExchange universe? I don't like Reddit's formatting system.
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Why is my question about replicating a figure from Hastie et al. not appropriate?
I asked this question earlier today but was quickly put on hold with a generic comment. I can only assume the question is on hold as it has been interpreted as being a coding question. It is clear ...
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Homework question put on hold for “demanding an answer” even though, I did show what my own thinking/approach to the problem was?
This post about a question that came up in a test was put on hold, presumably because I am "demanding an answer". But I'm not, I clearly explained what my thinking was and how it differed from the ...
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Just had 170 points removed. Excessive?
It is claimed that when a user is removed points will not be taken away when that would result in in an excessive loss of reputation. What is excessive? -170 points is more reputation than most people ...
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If someone answered my question outside CV, can I post the answer myself and accept?
I asked a question on CV and linked it to an author of a paper. They are not on CV, but gave me an answer. Is it OK to post it as an answer, as long as I say who it is from and that it isn't my own ...
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Irregular voting patterns
Without calling anyone out, I suspected someone of downvoting other answers than their own just to have theirs appear higher/attract more upvotes. However, I wasn't sure how to report this and more ...
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Would this dice question be on topic if it were posted or migrated here?
RPG.SE is currently having a bit of a vigorous discussion about this question about dice rolling (meta thereupon), in which this stack was brought up as a potential migrate target. There is a dice ...
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Community moderating vs systemic attacks
I see a lot of programming questions here. I remind people that programming questions are off-topic here, that they could be useful for Stack Overflow, and that the requirements are a minimal working ...
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How to answer questions about backpropagating specific architectures or functions?
There are quite a few questions asking how to run backpropagation when dealing with skip connections, residual networks, "mixed" RNN-CNNs, attention mechanisms, etc.
I suspect the reason for the ...
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Question about math notation closed as off-topic
The question "What is sigma function in the YOLO object detector?" has been closed as off-topic with the usual explanation:
This question appears to be off-topic because EITHER it is not about ...
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Should we make [deep-learning] tag a synonym for [neural-networks]?
We already have a thread on tag synonyms and merging the *-learning tags, but since deep learning is currently a hot topic, it probably would be better to discuss it separately.
Should we make deep-...
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Are questions concerning deployment best practices on-topic?
I have a model built with time series data that I want to deploy. Sadly, I haven't found a lot of resources for this and I wanted to ask how to best approach this. The answer I am hoping for contains ...
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Shouldn't CV be a valid resource on how to implement non-trivial statistical models in different software?
Currently the Help Center > Asking states that questions are on-topic if they're about "statistical analysis, applied or theoretical", and whenever it's about programming "if it needs statistical ...
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Why is math.SE more responsive than Cross Validated?
I am just wondering why it takes more time to get a response in Cross Validated than in math.SE.
Is there any specific reason?
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This opinion-based question must be closed
The question What must someone know in statistics and machine learning? is not suitable for the stats.SE format because it is primarily opinion-based. I believe that much is obvious on its face.
OP's ...
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Is there a way to solicit Cross Validated users to Commit to a proposed Operations Research and Analytics site (in Area 51)?
An "Operations Research and Analytics" site for Stack Exchange has been proposed https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/121892/operations-research-and-analytics, and is now in need of enough ...
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Are “stats-review” questions on-topic?
I'm dealing with a question on Stack Overflow that's really a "stats review" -- not technically a code review ("is this code OK?"), but "is this statistical approach OK?"
This strikes me as ...
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Someone upvoting my old answers at a rate of 2-3 per day [duplicate]
Think I am experiencing a weird stalk-upvoting behaviour this week. Every day I see 2-3 of my old answers being upvoted. And the upvoting started from the lowest-score answers (that had 0 score) and ...
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Can we resolve the lack of consensus about editors adding the self-study tag?
I recently looked over my list of reviews for 'suggested edits'. I found a fair number of cases where the majority vote was to approve the addition of the self-study...
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How to improve the description and usage of the [machine-learning] tag?
I've noticed that a specific user has engaged in a campaign to add the tag machine-learning to a number of posts that do not mention machine learning, particularly posts about neural-networks.
I don'...
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Should we remove the “datasets” close reason from the list?
Our recent proposal for adding one more close reason was declined. The reason was that we could re-use the "datasets" reason
Questions about obtaining specific datasets are off-topic on Cross
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Question titles cannot be similar to those of a closed question
I wish to ask a question with a similar (or identical) title to a question that is closed. But I'm not able to do this.
It seems to me that this is a mistake.
If the previous question is closed ...
