Unanswered Questions
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Closing "software questions"
TL;DR: Recently, it seems to me like we have been a little trigger-happy about closing questions as "only about software/programming". I ask that we please ease off a bit.
Our help page on ...
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Questions asking for statistical package recommendations: how do we differentiate in vs out of bounds for CV?
Recently, I asked for a recommendation for R packages that were capable of doing latent class analysis with mixed indicator types and were capable of doing latent class regression (i.e. treat the ...
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Are "stats-review" questions on-topic?
I'm dealing with a question on Stack Overflow that's really a "stats review" -- not technically a code review ("is this code OK?"), but "is this statistical approach OK?"
This strikes me as ...
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My question (on R/C/C++ libraries for a specific task) wrongfully put as off-topic
My question Libraries for Siamese networks put on hold as off-topic because, as gung claims, "questions asking for software, libraries, or code are off topic here".
There is no sentence "questions ...
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Flagging very old questions
I have today been flagging some very old questions that are very low quality. The reason I'm doing this is because they still show up in the "unanswered" section of the site, but they are very ...
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Improve closure-to-migrate voting
We often get questions that focus on how to do something using R (or Python, rarely SAS, MS Excel or others), with little to no statistical content. Such questions are off-topic and should be closed.
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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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If and how to ask about soliciting domain knowledge relevant to priors
One of the less precisely-defined (mathematically or otherwise) aspects of performing Bayesian inference is assignment of priors based on domain knowledge, and there are plenty of questions on ...
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Is it on topic for a question to ask for a canonical example?
I want to ask a question with the title Is there a canonical example demonstrating the difference between predictive and explanatory models?
I have ideas about the body of this question, with some ...
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Should questions about the statistics profession be added to the scope of CV?
I noticed that a recent question about the statistics profession was closed as off-topic. It clearly does not fall within the listed topics on our help pages so I have no objection to the moderating ...
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Course or what to study recommendation questions on-topic?
What should we do with "how to learn statistics/machine learning" questions?
For instance:
Mathematician wants the equivalent knowledge to a quality stats degree is pretty highly upvoted, community ...
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Are contest-type questions appropriate for CV?
It occurred to me that creating a contest, where (1) a statistical challenge or problem was completely defined, (2) judging criteria were unambiguously defined in terms of the winning answer, and (3) ...
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What to do when a question can be answered in a good, on-topic way, but the OP clearly seems to be interested in a off-topic answer?
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Are questions about solving practical data science problems (memory etc.) on topic?
here on Meta is discussing the interesting problem of questions which lie at the boundary between on-topic ...
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Would question seeking advice on software design involving probabilistic programming be on-topic?
I just wanted to try and see if I can cook up some simple Python routines to allow translation of commonly used models into code that we can then use some inference engine on. So, basically I am ...
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To what extent are questions about survey methodology and design appropriate?
I was thinking about asking for academic references relative to conducting a survey on the human population that frequents a transit neighborhood (transit neighborhood may be particularly challenging ...
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