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Synonyms for the "Test" tags
Stats.SE seems to have a few ambiguous / synonymous tags:
test x 49
testing x 23
hypothesis-testing x 497
The former two are even missing a description. I'll leave merging and creating appropriate ...
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Is my question too specialised?
I didn't get any answers or comments to my question. On reflection, I wondered whether I made a mistake by talking about MCMCglmm, which as far as I can tell is not a well known R package, and ...
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How to ask question related to the use of R?
Given the place of the R software in applied statistics, we expect that
questions related to this statistical package will regularly come on this
site, as has been done in the past. As a follow-up on ...
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Was Community meant to own this bounty?
There's a bounty that's owned by Community on a question in which the original asker's account seems to be intact.
Was the bounty taken out by a second party whose account was deleted, or is this a ...
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Is it appropriate to ask whether an idea you have is good and original?
I have come into the stats/machine learning field due to a sideways shift from computational physics. I'm not in an academic environment at the moment but feel as though I achieve good practical ...
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Follow-up question to a question with an accepted answer
I am just double-checking on this. If I have a followup question to an existing question where I already have accepted an answer. I should post it as a new question right?
For example asking to ...
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Would the community like to see book reviews on the blog?
Over at the skewed distribution community chat room it was brought up about whether book reviews would be on topic for the blog. A few of us in the room agreed it would be fine for the blog, but to ...
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Can we recruit more statisticians to participate in CV?
I think that if there is an awareness of the statisticians of the professional societies of the purpose and success of StackExchange CV many would want to help out. In the ASA quantitative literacy ...
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How to save favorite users?
How can I save my favorite users in the profile? Why would it be possible to mark "favorite" questions but not users?
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I have a question answered through a comment and not an answer
Just in browsing (I hadn't been to the site in a while) I've noticed one of my previous questions has been nudged by Community onto the list of latest questions. The question itself was answered but ...
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Does CV slow down during big meetings like the JSM in the US?
The JSM starts in San Diego this weekend. I am going on Saturday. I started here three months ago and have participated for all 87 days. I have sveral things to do at the meetings and may not get on ...
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Please do not migrate low quality questions
Greetings from your friendly neighbors who frequent the r tag over at StackOverflow!
We are all familiar with the fact that questions involving R will often straddle the two sites, and so a certain ...
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What is a "super-ping" and what does it mean if I get one?
I got a notice in my "inbox" about a chat message, but it's in a room I never heard of and never entered before. What's going on and what does that mean?
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Is there a way to attach a file?
Is there a way to attach a file such as .txt or .xlsx to my question? If not then what no-cost alternatives do I have?
BTW I work at a high security national laboratory so I can not post it online ...
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Should I ask a new question (lme4 vs MCMCglmm)?
In my question, I had an answer that wasn't understandable (for me) but in the comments to that answer and also the comments to the original question, I got some very useful info, although it made me ...
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"This webpage has a redirect loop"
Sometimes when I load CrossValidated, I get an error that the page has a redirect loop. I can always resolve this by going to meta.stats.stackexchange.com and then reloading stats.stackexchange.com. ...
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What is a good place for "how/where do I get data on X" questions?
I am trying to figure out where the line is for acceptable questions about sources of data and what is the best way to deal with such questions. In my mind, this is a special case of data collection ...
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Is it possible to give yourself reputation points?
Yesterday I noticed that a person answered his own question. That didn't concern me so much because it looked like he honestly didn't know the answer but found it as he did more research. But what ...
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How reasonable is to inform new users about upvotes and accepting answers through an automatic message?
I have noticed that most of the questions in Cross Validated come from new users who, for a number of reasons, do not read the FAQ section and do not know about the upvoting and accepting-an-answer ...
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Can I duplicate a SO question?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2076370/most-underused-data-visualization is an awesome question. It's not particularly suited to stack overflow though. I think it is definitely suited to CV, ...
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What is our policy on retagging old questions?
@whuber recently gave some reason as to why we should avoid trivial edits to questions/answers:
Users are awarded badges for making lots of edits, editing old posts, etc. Do you want to encourage ...
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Handling "suggested edits" to posts
I looked a bit but, surprisingly, couldn't find an answer to this here.
Users with edit-privileges have the ability to approve suggested edits from those under 2000 rep. Recently, I've been ...
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How can we best help to improve the questions asked on our site?
Some differences of opinion have cropped up concerning how to go about clarifying a less than perfectly formulated question. Because comment threads on our main site are not the best venue for airing ...
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When is a mathematical statistics question better on math.se?
I posted my question on stats.se yesterday but it was moved to maths. I actually thought about putting it on maths.se first, but since it was mathematical statistics, I thought I would post it here. I ...
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What happens when an answer's comments evolve into another question?
I recently answered a question that seemed to address the original question's issue (i.e. how to visualize some data). Then, in the comments, there was an implied follow-on question about how the ...
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Question about use of R package `mice`
I have a question about the mice package in R for multiple imputation. It is giving me an error message that I don't understand and have not been able to find ...
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Question about R (manipulating model output)
I have a question about using R , which I already posted on stackoverflow, but then I realised it might be better to post here - though I'm not really sure where is best ? Should I ask to migrate it ?
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Weighted vote mechanism
I have noted that the vote mechanism assign the same score for one vote up/down independently by the user score. In my opinion this is not fairly as high scored users has a deeper understanding of the ...
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Should I edit a factual error?
In this question, there is a factual error about the documentation in R. I believe the actual question being asked is a useful one.
Should I correct the factual error, or leave the correction as a ...
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What is the best way to ask a follow up or slightly revised question?
I posted a question and got a very good response. However, the response made me wish I had asked the question in a slightly different way. This would have been a very small change - basically adding ...
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Undelete request
all. I deleted a question right before someone answered it and now I am trying to undelete it, but can't because I don't have enough reputation. I reposted an identical question on math.stackexchange....
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How do you lose reputation points by "User removed"? [duplicate]
Today I lost 60 reputation point and the message just read "user removed". Does that mean that a user was taken off the system and that when that is done the persons votes get removed from the system? ...
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How to contact a user?
Sorry if I am stupid but I don't find how to send a private message to a user. Isn't it possible ? I took a look at the user's profile as well as the faq.
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Can I ask about computer hardware?
I need to buy a new computer because tasks I am running with R are taking 2-4 days to run (MCMC, multiple imputations) so I am looking for some advice on what to prioritise - more RAM, faster CPU ...
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Introducing: Jobs in your Sidebar
See that mini job board in the right panel on your site? We are testing out a new feature on a couple Stack Exchange sites. It's a jobs widget that displays several geo-targeted job postings specific ...
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How should performance answering questions best be evaluated
There are many statistics computed on the StackExchange websites that could be used to evaluate how well a person is performing at answering questions. We have (1) total reputation points (2) ...
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Are we allowed to criticize moderators on this site?
I try to learn and follow the rules of this site. The moderators are given very broad authority to edit responses, close questions, and move answers to comments. This is done sparingly and most of ...
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Will there be a 2012 moderator election?
Will there be a community moderator election for CrossValidated this year?
(I'm asking out of curiosity. I think that the current moderators do a great job! :)
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How can I improve my question?
My question didn't get any comment or answer, so I'm just wondering:
Is it an appropriate question for this site ?
How might I improve it to make it more answerable ?
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Current tag synonym candidates
Please post your tag synonym suggestions as new answers in this thread, one answer per suggestion. Upvote answers where you believe that the suggested tags should be made synonyms, and downvote ...
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Should the data-visualization and figure tags be merged?
Should the data-visualization and figures tags be merged?
There is no wiki description for ...
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Where to ask clinical trial / regulatory questions relating to (medical) statistics?
I'm not sure if questions about statistics in the context of clinical trials belong to cross validated, especially if regulatory aspects come into play.
Example for such a question would be:
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Crossposting on the stackexchange network
When a question is at the intersection of many fields, is it possible a crosspost on different stackexchange sites?
For example, if I formulate a question that could involve knowledge from Physics, ...
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What level of reputation do you have to get to, to be able to comment in all posts?
I have a query regarding being able to comment in all posts? Currently my reputation only allows me a privilege of being able to comment in the main forum on certain posts (the level is about 44% for ...
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Test of notification mechanisms
(This question first appeared on our main site). It tests a hypothesis about user notification. We were wondering whether inserting an "@" when editing a question would cause the user to be notified....
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Does being on StackExchange help get consulting jobs?
I previously asked a question as to whether or not StackExchange hurts a consultant's business because of all the free advice one can readily obtain here. Some felt that the advice given was for ...
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Is this a bug or is there a large lag between the time the grace period ends and the time a bounty is automatically awarded?
Edit: The grace period on this bounty ended around around 7 hours ago with no automatic award per the rule mentioned in the original post so I'm wondering if there is (a) a significant lag between the ...
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When the page crashes while you're posting/editing an answer
I've noticed a rather odd phenomena with the site on a number of occasions:
When I'm posting an answer for the first time, the draft is continually saved and so, if the page happens to crash while I'...
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Why does it seem that many people here don't know how to use Google
I have observed many times that people ask questions that have the specificity to be solved by a Google search. Yet they come to us and ask us. Often it could be fro a reference on a statistical ...
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How exactly does 'Community' randomly decide to bump posts?
I'd imagine this information is somewhere but I looked for a while and couldn't find anything in the FAQ or in a previous question.
Does anyone have any information about how exactly Community ...