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Why do we close programming questions instead of migrating them to SO?
I have the (possibility wrong) impression that most programming questions are closed with the motivation "this is not about stats, but about programming, or etc.", rather than being migrated to SO. ...
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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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A new tag for mixture of data types
I've created tag mixed-data. I mean a mixture of variables of different types or scales.
We long have tags [continuous-data], ...
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Add tags for sequencing, sequence analysis or TraMineR?
I'm currently starting an online course for social sequence analysis using the R package TraMineR. We plan to use stats.stackexchange.com to support the course and the evolving social sequence ...
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CART as junior synonym to Decision Tree
I would recommend to make "cart" and "classification-tree" tags junior synonyms of "decision-tree". Because, often CART acronym is regarded to be just a particular method or algorithm of the tree ...
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Shouldn't commenting require less reputation than answering? [closed]
I'm not sure I understand why extra reputation is required to be able to comment on questions and answers. (At my level of reputation--16 in CrossValidated, though higher in some other areas of ...
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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.
Under ...
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Why was my question deleted if It was not even on hold nor closed?
This was my question https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/374062/least-square-estimators-for-beta-0-and-beta-1-and-uncorrelated-relation-b
I am surprised that was deleted because there is ...
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The 7 Essential Meta Questions
As we are coming half way the private beta we should start discussing and preparing some things for the general public to come in. This question is mainly meant to show how far we are with "The 7 ...
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What is appropriate use of the 'Not an answer' flag?
Recently I've had some discussions with @whuber about what constitutes appropriate use of the 'Not an answer' flag where I was referred to this thread:
To flag or not to flag and a request for ...
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Is it okay to add the bayesian tag if my answer is Bayesian? [duplicate]
I have given Bayesian answers to questions that do not have the bayesian tag. Sometimes my Bayesian answer is accepted and there's not tag to lead anyone there. Is it ever okay to add the tag? Do I ...
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The Question of the Week #2
We had selected our first Question of the Week, now, when the blog has finally started, is time to continue the series.
Thus, please propose and vote for recent questions you think deserve blogging ...
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Aren't we supposed to flag obsolete comments?
So, there's this chain of comments in Any example of (roughly) independent variables that are dependent at extreme values?:
After the edits the whole exchange became obsolete, and will only confuse ...
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Why are comments not included in question-feeds?
I like to monitor the development of a question in which I'm involved in an RSS-reader. Often the interesting development is in the comments, though. Currently, a question's RSS feed includes only the ...
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Synonym merging suggestion for users with under 2.5k?
Is there any way for a user with under 2.5k reputation to suggest synonym mergers?
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Tag synonym suggestion: multiple-comparisons <-> multiple-hypothesis
The terms multiple-comparisons and multiple-hypothesis are used interchangeably.
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bordermatrix in MathJaX
It would be nice to have the option to use bordermatrix in MathJaX. See the bottom of the page http://www.math.harvard.edu/texman/node25.html
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Ways of reputation to go down
I noticed a drop in my reputation today. Not that I mind, I have plenty, so I am asking why did it happen purely because maybe it is because of a bug. As far as I know reputation can get down because ...
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Can questions be asked on more than one Stack Exchange site?
No one likes duplicate questions, but I'm considering posting a question about information theory. It would be well-suited to both Cross Validated AND Cryptography. I'd be interested in the opinions ...
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What are useful differences (if any) between [algorithms], [numerics], and [computational-statistics] tags?
I have just found myself adding these three tags (numerics, algorithms, and computational-statistics) to the following question (noticing an offered bounty): What algorithm is used in linear ...
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Merge tags -> Duplicate tags
I recently merged [graphical-techniques] into [data-visualization]. I was expecting this to remove the graphical-techniques tags when the other tag already existed, but instead it added duplicates.
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Can I cross-post a question which answer I'm not satisfied with?
For Gaussian distribution matrix $X$, find $E(F(X))$ and $\sigma(X)$ s.t. $F=\sum f(x_i)P_i,$ given $E(f_i(x_i)),\sigma(f_i(x_i)) \forall i$
While jbowman answers my question, I am unsatisfied. I ...
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Merging tags, should we do it? How to do it significance-test/statistical-significance Mathematical-statistics/mathematic
The two tags significance-test and statistical-significance
are very similar. The same thing occurs with Mathematics and mathematical-statistics
I guess these should be merged. What do you think ? if ...
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How do I find out why "a question here fails to meet quality standards"?
I had a valid question about normal distributions in higher dimensions to ask here.
But I can't -- it "does not meet our quality standards". I can't find any reference to what these standards might be....
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Are notation questions off-topic?
I was wondering if the Stats.SE community would know of a more compact way of writing $$(X_1, X_2, \dots, X_n) \sim F$$ since I use it so often, but there's nothing inherently difficult about the ...
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I just want to take this on early: Can we please, please NOT use the [beginner] tag or any similar tags.
I'm of the belief that tags should be used to describe the content in a way that is understood by everyone. The word "beginner" and similar words (I've seen "fundamental" and "fundamentals" thrown out ...
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Tag synonym: auc -> roc?
I believe auc should be a synonym for roc. auc was created only for this question.
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What is the difference between tags "validity" and "validation"?
Should validity and validation be synonyms, or there is a difference in meaning between them?
So far (07th, July, 2013):
validity was used 16 times on CV and validation 69 times.
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This is a ...
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Tags on meta.CV about "questions"
Cross Validated Meta has four related tags and I am trying to understand them. I believe they are different (at least some of them) but not sure how. Tag excerpts do not exist for these yet.
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How can a new user with not enough rep comment on a question that the same user has previously asked while unregistered?
I have a question about my Cross Validated post: Polynomial regression with slope constrait in R
This question is marked as duplicate of another question here. I posted previous question as well but ...
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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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Cleaning up tags: merging
There seem to be a number of tags that could be merged, e.g. there is "book" and "books" (hmm.. both with 16 followers, I wonder what the overlap is.. :) ).
This seems to be an ongoing topic of ...
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Should mentioning "potential" ethical issues with data analysis/display be part of an answer?
On another StackExchange site (https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/270097/remove-outliers-in-boxwhiskerchart?noredirect=1#comment674078_270097), I've run into resistance because of my ...
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What does the kernel tag refer to? [duplicate]
I was reviewing the "kernel" tag and this tag may refer to several different items.
In statistics, Kernel has a particular meaning.
However, a commonly encountered use of the term kernel in the ...
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Don't use possibly-offtopic tag
Currently 3 questions are tagged possibly-offtopic. Why is this done? The close votes will show what we think what is offtopic and the discussion will be done here.
The tags are used to give useful ...
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Shall I attach pieces of code to my answers?
I'm very grateful for the code function, as it makes it easy to illustrate some answers. Yet, I feel I for one have the risk of overloading my answer with R code. Good if you know R, but not always ...
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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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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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synonym request - gam and general additive model [duplicate]
The tag wiki for gam says "general additive model", and has 44 questions. There is also general-additive-model, which has 6 questions.
Please can someone with the required privileges establish the ...
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The homework tag and homework policy (is it indeed "a routine question"?)
Right now the homework tag says "a routine question....". To me, this implies a simple question, probably from an elementary text. Many homework tagged questions are, indeed, just like this.
But some ...
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Wiki excerpt for [sensitivity-analysis] tag?
The current excerpt of sensitivity-analysis is wrong; it's not necessarily about violations, just about variations in inputs, possibly unseen:
Sensitivity analysis refers to methods to see if ...
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Firefox 3.6.13 messes up Mathjax
This problem was first reported on Math.SE. I'm bring this to your attention since Stats.SE also uses Mathjax.
Basically, the latest build of Firefox version 3.6.13 has a known issue of messing up ...
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TeX processing for Stats
We are evaluating google charts to add TeX support on http://math.stackexchange.com and were interested to know if the stats community at large would be interested in this feature.
Would you much ...
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What to do with homework questions posed as non-homework?
Here is a question which is a homework question. This is problem 3.23 on page 97 of Hastie et al., Elements of Statistical Learning, 2nd. ed. (5th printing). There are several problems in my opinion:
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Can we help with multiple choice homework without violating site policy?
I recently answered a multiple choice question on CV and although the OP did not label it homework it obviously was. Should we try to give hints? I had a hard time finding a way to suggest an answer ...
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How much can we ask about Speech Recognition
I am wondering, what can we ask about speech recognition on this site.
This question indicates that machine learning is very much included in the site. So how about the following questions:
How do I ...
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How do we handle overlap with mathoverflow
This question is similar to the question "How to answer R questions" How to answer R questions
but for math.
Hence, if people ask math question, we can
Bounce them all to MO
Answer all questions, ...
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Clustering picture gallery
This is a proposed community wiki to collect pictures of
unsupervised clustering of data sets, e.g. k-means
and ANN, approximate nearest neighbors.
Both pictures of clusters themselves,
and diagrams ...
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How to find community wiki
I know it is stupid question, but honestly, I can't find any link that would point me there.
Maybe it doesn't exist in a way I expect it to find? Maybe there is no wiki per se, and one makes entry ...
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OpenID associated with a wrong account
I am using my friends computer and I was trying to make a new account for stackexchange, but I must have done something wrong because now my email/ID is linked to my friend's account, and it didn't ...
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