I have been an active participant in the site for a while now, and I never really figured out how to deal with issues that keep recurring (nor have I figured out "Community" topics). I would appreciate some pointers. Is there a place for statistics FAQs and their ever-growing answers? Thanks.
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A very similar question came up around a year ago, although I'm unaware of any material change in the site in response to that. I will suggest cardinal's suggestions are still just as relevant and highlight other communities' behavior in response to similar problems.
I think the faq tag on the main site is the simplest way forward. I imagine you have some answers of your own in mind about evaluating regression models: you could add a faq
tag to the question yourself and then in the future make sure to link back to it whenever a similar question returns.
An interesting project may be to examine the network of answers and see which ones are linked to most frequently. These might be good candidates for applying the faq
tag.
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1$\begingroup$ I focus on actionable behavior (as opposed to debating the need for such an faq thread) as no action came out of previous discussion. I suspect any of the suggestions will have a net positive impact on the community - it is just necessary for some key individuals to take the steps to get the ball rolling. $\endgroup$– Andy WMar 28, 2014 at 1:46
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4$\begingroup$ Sounds good to me. When I have time in a couple of weeks I'll start a controversial one to see how the process works, e.g. FAQ: How do you interpret a large $P$-value? $\endgroup$ Mar 28, 2014 at 16:06
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1$\begingroup$ @Frank: It looks like you never got around writing this large p-value FAQ. Are you still thinking of doing it? $\endgroup$– amoebaDec 12, 2014 at 14:20
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tag like they do on SO (eg, r-faq). I wonder if we should? Note that SO's are language specific, whereas one here would end up filled w/ heterogeneous material on r, hypothesis testing, regression, clustering, pca, etc. A real question is whether it would actually help make material better organized & more accessible. $\endgroup$