Questions tagged [exact-duplicates]
The process of identifying and closing questions that are exact duplicates of another question
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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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Profusion of threads on imbalanced data - can we merge/deem canonical any?
We appear to have a number of overlapping threads on imbalanced data. Here are just a few of the more highly-upvoted ones:
Are unbalanced datasets problematic, and (how) does oversampling (purport to) ...
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What to do about obsolete, or out-of-date questions, specifically this one about neural networks?
Some questions have answers which are obsolete, or outdated. One prominent example is How to choose the number of hidden layers and nodes in a feedforward neural network?
This question has an answer ...
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Question closed as duplicate of a totally different question
My question was closed as a duplicate of another question.
I was asking for a formula, if any, to compute accuracy for a logistic regression without using a separate test set. For instance (I am just ...
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Two good questions (with good answers) about fitting after cross validation: to which should we point the dupes?
These two questions answer are very similar, and each has a good, highly upvoted, accepted answer:
How to choose a predictive model after k-fold cross-validation?, and Training with the full dataset ...
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Beta regression 0/1 duplicates
I noticed that we have three threads which appear to address the exact same topic.
Can someone with expertise in this area make a recommendation of which questions should be closed as a duplicate of ...
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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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Can CV bookmark index questions for which others are commonly closed as duplicates?
If you go to close a question as a duplicate, CV tries its best to "guess" which earlier question it may be duplicate of. Being statisticians, we are leery of the algorithm, and indeed matching on a ...
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Canonical duplicate for "Why do predictions vary less than observations?"
Two recent questions:
Regression - variance of predictions much lower than variance of target, which I voted to close as a duplicate of
Regression predictions show far less variance than expected
I ...
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Modifying the title of duplicate questions
This question was recently closed as duplicate. I agree with this, but the title is now the title of the older question which is more restrictive than that of the new one (the old one is about two ...
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What to do with a question which is a duplicate of a question on Math SE
This question
What is a distribution over functions?
is a duplicate of
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2297424/extending-a-distribution-over-samples-to-a-distribution-over-functions
but I ...
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Please help again with review queues, even if they are short!
Again posts can linger for too long (days) in the review queues without resolution. Now not because the queues are long, they are short so people forgot to visit them. See my former question long ...
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What to do with a question which asks about R packages and how to fit RBF networks
This question
How to fit a RBF network in R?
asks an off-topic question (which R package to use to fit RBF networks) and a question which, while on-topic, is very likely a duplicate. Should I close ...
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Should we have a canonical question about coincidences?
Right now, this question is marked for closing as a duplicate of this one. Yet the titles and subjects are totally different at first glance - and someone searching for something similar will have ...
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Answer in question marked as duplicate is superior
The following question (let's call it A) Unequal sample size one way ANOVA has an accepted, upvoted answer. It is also marked as a duplicate of the newer question (B) Unequal Sample Sizes One-Way ...
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Does close-as-duplicate require an accepted answer on the target thread?
Today I've seen a specific user comment on multiple threads that the target of a close-as-duplicate is not accepted, and therefore one cannot vote to close as a duplicate with the target thread as the ...
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What to do when a question with an open bounty is a duplicate?
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Basic question about standard error in predictive model
is clearly a duplicate of either
How to compute prediction bands for non-linear regression?
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Shape of confidence and prediction ...
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What to do if we see cross-posting
This question
fitting a distribution to survival curve in R
has been posted as an exact duplicate on Stack Overflow
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48137772/fitting-a-distribution-to-survival-...
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What to do about "wrong" questions?
We sometimes get what I would describe as "wrong" questions.
For instance, a perennial favorite seems to be questions about binning continuous variables, like What is a best way of binning non-finite ...
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What to do about an answer copied verbatim by another user (in an attempt to be helpful)?
I just noticed that this answer is a nearly verbatim copy of my answer to the duplicate question here (I answered before I marked the question as a dupe: I'm not sure what happened, but I might have ...
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If question A came before question B how can A be a duplicate of B?
The community often brings old questions back up to the front page to allow for a fresh review by the membership of these questions. Recently on Cross Validation I have seen members suggest that an ...
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What to do about very different questions with very similar answers?
I have noticed several times that some questions are flagged by some as "duplicate" questions when the questions appear very different but have similar answers. The questions are asking about very ...
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Duplicates? Where should I put my question?
I asked a question about Neural Networks in the Signal Processing site
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However now, checking the different sites I wonder if this is more on topic in Cross Validated?
And second, What is ...
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Why can't we close questions as duplicates if they are already answered on another Stack Exchange site? [duplicate]
Background:
I saw this answer:
Negative population variable importance
The top line says that the question is a duplicate of one on mathoverflow.
I tried to close-vote it, because it is a duplicate ...
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Proposal to merge Cohen's kappa Q/A
In accordance with our policy: What is our policy on merging duplicate questions?, that is, we are supposed to post meta suggestions for merges of questions/answers and take votes on them.
I propose ...
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Should I ask a new question or will it be marked as duplicate?
The question Regression with percentage response variable (ratio of two counts but the counts themselves are not available) in R is very close to a duplicate of What are the issues with using ...
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My question was marked as duplicate - despite actually building on the subject it was accused of duplicating
I have a question about my Cross Validated post: The formula of a coefficient from a regression with 3 independent variables (not in matrix form)
I posted the original question today and immediatelly ...
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Question A is a duplicate of question B + question C: what to do?
If a question A is a duplicate of a combination of two questions, what should I do? Should I flag it as duplicate of one of the two questions, and leave a comment?
The issue I have with comments is ...
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Should I answer this question or should I add an answer to these other "similar" questions?
I was going to answer a question about books for time series. However, in comments Andre Silva pointed out this answer (which is also a Community Wiki) and this other answer.
Now, the latest ...
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Should new users be allowed to provide questions similar to others?
Recently on CrossValidated I have found that new members may not have studied all the rules prior to asking their first question. I find that moderators and other users will quickly vote to close ...
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Project Reduplication of Deduplication - Cross Validated
Stack Exchange recently started a collaboration project with the University of Melbourne, in an attempt to improve the automatic detection of duplicate questions.
More information on the project and ...
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Can I ask a question again, but with a different point of view?
I approached a question the wrong way and I would like to ask it again from a different point of view, but it already has an answer.
I asked this question:
Estimating quantiles with linear ...
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A question is a clear duplicate, but the original question doesn't have an answer - only a (real good) comment. What to do?
Question Compare the statistical significance of the difference between two polynomial regressions in R is an obvious duplicate of question Comparing difference between two polynomial regression ...
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Updating/re-asking software-related questions
In R, there are two main packages for estimating mixed effects models: nlme and lme4. They have certain differences. (There are also other packages.)
In 2010, we had a well-received question: How to ...
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Suggestion to merge several questions on hyperparameter definition
Consider these three questions (in chronological order):
What exactly is a hyperparameter?
What do we mean by hyperparameters?
What's in a name: hyperparameters
I think it's pretty clear that ...
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How many questions about cross-validation do we honestly need?
We have a wealth of questions about cross-validation, such as
Cross-validation including training, validation, and testing. Why do we need three subsets?
What is the difference between test set and ...
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Overzealous marking as duplicate
I think it is quite obvious (so long as you read it in its entirety) that this question has incorrectly been marked as duplicate. It is worth reading the comments too.
EDIT: Just to be clear, my ...
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How is this question a dupe?
$\mathbb{E}[S_n]$, when $S_n$ takes $X_1+...+X_n$ or $Y_1+...+Y_n$?
I don't think it is the same thing as:
Why does $\mathbb{E}(\frac{X_1+...+X_n}{n})=\mathbb{E}(X)$?
because the former involves ...
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Many (historical) duplicate questions - how to pick a "canonical" question?
I want to bring this up here rather than mass-flagging a whole bunch of questions as duplicates (and also avoiding the issue of choosing one as the "base")
This question from today is a new member of ...
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Asking for clarification on the benefits of redundancy or multiple questions and answers on one topic
I have discovered this site only recently, and coming from a non-mathematical or computer background, but with quite a bit of interest in statistics and scientific methodology, I've come to enjoy it ...
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Editing abbreviation in the title
Recently I wanted to mark a duplicate of a question about defining maximum likelihood, but was unable to find the "main" question since it used "MLE" in title rather then "maximum likelihood" (Maximum ...
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"Possible duplicate" label vs. "This question already has an answer here"
I noted that the old duplicates and the new duplicates have different formatting.
The questions that are now getting closed as duplicate get a bluish plaque on top saying "This question already has ...
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I attempted to make a FAQ-style question; does it make sense?
There have been several discussions on meta about how to organize frequently asked questions, and one idea is that one can simply write and answer such a question, creating a thread that can later be ...
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Does it make a sense to create the reference questions for popular topics?
There are topics which keep coming back in different forms such as normality testing of random variables. I thought maybe it makes sense to create a question with the best possible formulation, then ...
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Duplicate linked to question with no answers
Today I found something strange, a question that is marked as a duplicate of another question that is closed as off-topic (while IMHO it was not off-topic, but that is a meta off-topic comment in here)...
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What is our policy on merging duplicate questions?
Sometimes a duplicate question gets an answer before it gets closed as a duplicate. In some cases this answer is either better than the answer(s) in the "main" question, or at least adds something ...
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Inconsistency with closure and migration
There were two very similar posts on CV - this and the one it (almost) duplicates (at least, if you count the Q in comments, it's a duplicate). I marked the linked one as a duplicate and was in the ...
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Accepting an answer of another/duplicate question
My question turned out to be a duplicate. Yet, it gathered some good answers. However, one of the answers to the other, first, question suits me best. Can I accept it as best answer to my question?
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What should be our policy on duplicate answers?
I recently came across an answer that was copied & pasted in toto from another thread. I think the answer is high-quality--I had upvoted the previous iteration--but I am uncomfortable with this; ...
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Do duplicates count across SE sites?
If a question asked on CV is answered on another SE site, is that a duplicate question?
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