# All Questions

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### Question regarding answers to HW questions

I know we are not supposed to give full answers to HW questions. But what if the answer given by the book or teacher is demonstrably wrong? This is the case for this question
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### We hit the first non-CW “Great Answer” badge. What milestones are we yet to hit that indicate a 'mature' group?

I notice that overnight (my time) we hit the first non-CW "Great Answer" badge (it had been awarded 3 times before, but all to community-wiki answers), on this answer; congratulations whuber. So, ...
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### Can we make icc a synonym of intraclass-correlation?

We have two tags for intraclass correlation: intraclass-correlation (which indexed 40 threads), and icc (which indexed 6). I have retagged 5 of the latter (1 was migrated and couldn't be edited), and ...
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A few months ago I published some data explorer queries I'd developed that people seemed to appreciate. I had a funny idea today and I thought I'd share my results: the following query lists answers ...
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### Was it right to move this post? (What are the criteria?) Did that happen too fast?

I feel like this post was a question with a legitimate statistical issue in it (though poorly identified in the question)... and was unfortunately moved fairly* quickly (indeed it disappeared while I ...
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### Discussion: Either consolidate tags or allow more than 5

Suggestion: Either consolidate tags or allow more than 5 We currently have multiple tags with overlapping meanings. For example the tags: "svd", "matrix-factorization" and "linear algebra". I think ...
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### Is there a way to 'undo' a mistaken review?

A few minutes ago, I rejected a tag wiki edit (which didn't match the comment) as too minor (a one character change), and seconds after I did so realized that I had made a mistake, since it turns out ...
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### The 'dispersion' tag is ambiguous

There is a new tag: dispersion, which I just edited. It can, I believe, refer to at least two different things: Measures of spread of a distribution or set of values (e.g. the sd, the interquartile ...
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### Increasing efficiency - removing tag “discussion” from CV meta

have you ever noticed that almost ALL questions here in meta are tagged as "discussion"? When we consider the fact that every question is discussed...it is quite useless tag. So it would be rational ...
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### What could be done with respect to tag “big-list”?

I tried to put some more effort into this question, so I reformulated it. Furthermore, this is not about closing questions labeled as big-list. What could we do about the tag big-list (x38)? It ...
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### How do I go about asking this question here on Stats.SE?

Total newb to stats: I'm an embedded programmer with a BSEE, so I like to think I've got lots of knowledge with the least possible amount of applicability to real life. I built a test bench to ...
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### Encouraging questioners to answer their own self-study questions

I just had a thought: we should encourage askers of [self-study] questions to write up (and accept) the answers the answers that they end up with. The question here is: is that a good idea? If we ...
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### Question recommendation algorithm in StackExchange

I am trying to understand how StackExchange recommends questions to the users. Untill now, my observation is tags of recommended questions are associated with tags user is related to (tags of ...
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### Does the bounties page of user profile have a bug? (or am I just especially dense?)

This has been nagging at me a while. I guessed I'd figure out what was going on eventually, but I haven't - I am more puzzled than ever. If it is a bug I could post it to meta.SO* -- but it's more ...
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### Distinguishing between types of GMM

GMM is an abbreviation for Generalized Method of Moments Gaussian Mixture Models Growth Mixture Models The second usage seems to be far more common on CV, but now that Lars Hansen has finally won ...
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### Two people editing at once

Just now @Gung and I were editing the same post in the same way (making equations into latex equations). The post was fairly lengthy and this sort of editing is a bit of a pain. Is there a way to ...
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### Identical username for two distinct active accounts allowed by the system?

I found two active users with identical user names, but distinct accounts. I was over at math.SE and saw an interesting meta-quesiton. I read it through and I thought I recognized the username of the ...
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### Is grammar induction on-topic here?

Are questions about grammar induction on-topic here? I believe GI belongs to the subject of machine learning, but not necessarily statistics.
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### Should I opt for a comprehensive answer at the price of making it a long one?

I am rather new to the .SE sites (started with math.SE and then expanded to CV) but during these last three months I had some time on my hands and I have answered a fair number of questions (93 in ...
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### Are salutations like “dear all” automatically removed from questions?

somehow the "Dear all" from my previous question disappeared and could not be edited back in? Does this happen all the time or was there just something weird going on in my browser?
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### Opening a possible “popular” question/discussion

In France, I am under the impression that the probability & statistics teaching in secondary school contains many disasters. For example, here are two typical exercises in books: A coin is ...
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### Is it okay to 'interfere' with spam?

Took me a while to locate it, but unless there's some CV specific-benefit, perhaps this one should be closed? I've just flagged, voted for deletion and downvoted a blatant spam post. No doubt it ...
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### 2013 Moderator Election Results

Cross Validated's second moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderators are: They'll be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for ...
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### What ways do you use to decide a question is 'good'?

I just got a reminder (while upvoting an answer) that I hadn't upvoted a question in a while. As it turned out, I had explicitly chosen to go to that particular question with the intent of upvoting ...
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### Do we need both “power” and “power analysis” tags?

Do we really need both of these tags? They seem very close to me.
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In our site Help Center, under 'Asking' heading there is currently three pinned user-guiding themes: What topics can I ask about here?, What types of questions should I avoid asking?, What does it ...
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### A proposal to better serve new users

Cross Validated gets a lot of new users; perhaps other SE sites do as well, but I am not very familiar with them. These new users often do not do things the "CV" or "SE" way, through no fault of ...
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### Flagging as off topic [duplicate]

I saw a question (here) that was clearly off-topic and could be (and probably has been) answered on tex.stackexchange.com. However, when I tried to flag it, was given the option of saying it was ...
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### How can we obtain voting data after the election?

Will we be able to see the results by vote after the elections are over? Or will we just have an announcement of who the winners are? I would be interested in knowing the exact numbers, as in: ...
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### 2013 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire

In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as ...
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### What requirements are there to vote in a Moderator Election on CV?

This came up in the Election chat room; what are the requirements that a user must meet in order to be eligible to vote in the moderator elections? There is a 300 rep barrier for nominations, but what ...
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### Changing profile picture

I asked this question in a chat forum the other day but I decided to post it here to get an official answer started. I'd like to know if there is a way to change my profile picture to a newly random ...
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I have been a user on cross validated website for quite some time. Around a month ago, I was suddenly unable to add tags to my questions or to add comments to any question. I have contacted the ...
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### Defining clearer house rules on software-related questions

Given the various issues regarding handling of software-related questions (see here for one jumping-off point), can we curate a set of house rules that encapsulates what Question the community would ...
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### 2013 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection

The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it here. In connection with the moderator elections, we will be holding ...
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### What does CrossValidated aim to be, who is it for?

There has been a lot of discussion about software-related questions on CV (see here or here for examples...). And yet there is still no clear idea and guidance on what CV is, what it strives to be and ...
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### Can we nominate candidates for the 2013 moderator elections?

So I know that on cross validated we can nominate ourselves for the moderator position, but are we able to nominate others for the position? I do not see an option for this but there a few people I ...
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### 2013 Community Moderator Election

As the Cross Validated community grows, so does the load on our moderator team. The existing staff is doing an excellent job, and in order to keep up the good work, they've requested a few more sets ...
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There exists Area51 proposal called Sports Betting. (Admittedly, it is not very active so far and it might get deleted for inactivity. One of the reasons for writing here is making the users of this ...
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### Question incorrectly migrated

The question "Gaussian kernel density estimation with fixed covariance (with python)" was incorrectly migrated to StackOverflow. Can we have it restored to Cross-Validated? Based on this meta ...
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### Are there other ways to find good recent answers on CrossValidated?

Presently (and for the foreseeable future) I have a particular interest in finding especially good fairly recent answers. Besides the reasonably obvious ones of (i) following the active queue ...
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### Can we clarify the off-topic closing options?

Evidently, when we vote to close a question as off-topic and appropriate for Stack Overflow, the thread will not actually be migrated unless we select: ...
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### R questions 'on topic' for CV

I've looked at a number of previous discussions on the CV/SO divide for R questions - I'm not sure that any of those I've seen quite get to the following point: There are now, I believe, getting on ...
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### Is it wrong to ask a user to accept an answer?

As a newer user, I am uncertain if the community norms here in CV are different than on Math.SE. There, it appears to be acceptable to ask a user to accept/upvote an answer in cases such as your ...
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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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### Should the name of a piece of software be formatted as code?

I've noticed that in posts & suggested edits the name of a piece of software is sometimes formatted as code, e.g. R or ...