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Could we change the title of this sub-stack, as well as the image which seems to hype a five-fold cross-validation strategy?

Validation is not inherently tied to repetition over folds. Considering the hundreds of "unanswered" questions tagged with [cross-validation] (meaning no answer is either up-voted or ...
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Why Cross Validated instead of Statistics [duplicate]

I am curious why this site is called Cross Validated, and not directly called Statistics.
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Should the HTML title of this CrossValidated site still be "Statistical Analysis"?

Is it intentional that the HTML title for the CrossValidated site is "Statistical Analysis"? Or is it a hold-over from the beta name? The HTML title is what determines the browser window title and ...
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Shall we defend CrossValidated?

NothingToInstall.com has lost its name and got back to WebApps; there is ongoing discussion about it on Meta.SO here and Meta WebApps here. What do you think about it, especially in case of our site? ...
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Results of site name poll

The voting for the site name has finished. In all, 68 people voted. There were five site names presented and each person voted for their first, second and third preference. The votes were as follows. ...
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Site name selection

The second round of voting on the site name is now open. This is a very important decision in the site's formation, so we appreciate everyone's contribution. Keep the site's scope in mind as you ...
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Change the "beta" site name?

Given everything, I'm inclined to request that we change our "beta" site name from "Statistical Analysis" to "Data Analysis", and the respective subdomain from "stats" to "data". I think this would ...
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Site name voting: decision time

We previously decided to break out the voting into a second round following the heated commentary between crossvalidated.com and statsoverflow.com. One suggestion was to use a blind poll with the top ...
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Does the site also need a subtitle?

In parallel with deciding on a name, should we also be thinking about a subtitle? For example, CrossValidated is winning right now, but that doesn't say everything that we need to have said about the ...
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Deadline for site name?

I propose that we create a deadline for the voting on the site name so that we can move onto the logo/look-and-feel question. Does anyone know when this is supposed to be completed? Just to make the ...
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Shall we advertise votings in the system message?

I think we should reflect there (this blue bar with "got a question about the site...") the ongoing moderator and site name elections; both topics are dying with embarrassingly small number of votes, ...
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What should our site be called? / What should our domain name be? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Write an Elevator Pitch / Tagline Note: We are closing this domain naming thread. It is asking the entirely wrong question. See this blog post for details: Domain Names: Wrong ...