Unanswered Questions
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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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JSM 2015 mixer?
I've asked on the CV Meta before about who is attending the Joint Statistical Meetings, and who wants to match the usernames and faces. Honestly, I am jumping from session to session during the day, ...
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2015 Community Moderator Election
The 2015 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks,...
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Is it okay to add the [self-study] tag through an edit instead of asking OP to do it?
I just (attempted to) reject an edit to include the "self-study" tag in a question, because the editor was "pretty certain that this is a self-study/homework question". "Self-study" is I think the ...
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Should the standards for closing questions be relaxed somewhat for old questions?
As I've started reviewing more this question keeps occurring to me. In my judgment there are three ordered categories of question quality: should definitely stay open, should definitely be closed, ...
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No comments - no answers?
I feel like I'm being a nuisance here as I've posted similar questions on meta before. It's been a few days and there have been no comments or answers to my question. It's just a bit frustrating. I ...
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A call for participation on the Cross Validated Blog
Some recent discussion on meta brought up whether (and how) the blog should be integrated with the site, see "Is there a way to make the blog more prominent? Should we?". Part of my biggest concern ...
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Programming or data request confusion
I haven't been reviewing long, but it seems like almost daily I see questions closed due to programming or data requests. But to me the majority of these are more often statistical questions rather ...
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Profusion of threads on log transform - find candidates for FAQ tag
We regularly get questions about log transforming dependent variables, which in some quarters appears to be seen as a magic silver bullet that solves all problems, because apparently, "everything ...
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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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Does it take too long for questions "on hold" to be re-opened and are enough questions re-opened?
I find it a bit puzzling, regarding site moderation, that questions are put on hold quickly (that's good) but in my experience it takes forever for them to be re-opened. In a recent example from this ...
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Closing a terminology question as primarily opinion-based vs. writing an answer explaining why it is primarily opinion-based?
If a terminology question asks about a subjective term, is it preferable to close it as primarily opinion-based or to write an answer explaining why it is primarily opinion-based?
Example: What is ...
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Is it possible to change accidental reviews for a short time after the review?
Often I visit CV via my mobile phone because during the day I am out for work, etc. With the smaller screen and the imperfections of a touch device I have experienced a few instances where I approved ...
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Ten-fold has been frozen for inactivity. I put it down to the new "style". What can we do, if anything?
I just went to post something to Ten-fold (the main chat room); specifically a bit of chat not suited to a post to the main site.
Ten-fold has been frozen for inactivity!
I put it down to the new "...
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Cross Validated Birthday Celebration?
Did you know that the anniversary of Cross Validated's graduation is coming up on November 4th? Congratulations!
How about a contest or some other fun activity to stir things up a little? After a ...
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