The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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Is there a problem with a (previously unawarded) tag badge?
I am wondering if there's a bug or I missed something obvious.
I recently - a few days back - got the (bronze) self-study tag badge (I've had a few others before).
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No tag for sensitivity?
I tried to add a tag for "sensitivity" and was not able to do so; I did add one for specificity. It's very surprising these aren't already tags, and I am not sure what's up
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I just noticed the faq was gone - are any links broken? was this a SE-wide thing or a CV thing?
I just noticed the link to the faq was gone (though I can see where much or perhaps even all of it is located now)
I didn't notice the change before (am I unobservant - did I miss something I ...
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Is it reasonable to go tag-hunting?
Occasionally I have done a search like this:
smirnov -[kolmogorov-smirnov]
to locate posts that mention a word that's likely connected to the tag, but doesn't ...
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A closed question on GIS is again closed and deleted here [closed]
Yesterday, I asked a question on GIS about visualization and needed some examples to understand a paragraph of a book better. People commented that it has nothing to do with GIS and you better ask it ...
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What happened to the idea to start an R-specific StackExchange site?
As adequately addressed in R-specific StackExchange site or greater integration of R community within CV?, there has been a discussion on whether or not to start an R-specific StackExchange site (an ...
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Are there guidelines/patterns to follow when choosing between posting a picture or providing its link?
There is this question, where one answer from @EngrStudent brings a link to a nice picture of a bubble chart.
Despite link usage generally makes questions / answers smaller (not always, though), I ...
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Data assimilation proposal
Just a shout out regarding a Data Assimilation site proposed on Area51. Some data assimilation questions would be on topic here, but for the most part it is a related but different discipline. Neither ...
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Reviewing questions and applying LaTeX format
Questions formatted in LaTeX are easier to read, but not everyone who has permission to review a question/answer knows how to do it (maybe I am an "outlier" here, but not sure).
Are there any ...
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Is it appropriate to share a homemade R function?
For my own use, I wrote an R function to plot the observed probability (with error bars) of some binary outcome by quantiles of some continuous predictor variable. Among other things, I plan to use it ...
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Should all “book recommendation” questions be classified as community wiki?
Firstly, my opinion about book(or other material) recommendation question is:
they are very positive and useful!
Recently I came across with a question that was asking for book recommendation in an ...
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How can I sign in with a different account?
I can't sign in with a different account (with stackexchange). Somebody before me used my computer to sign in to their account (with stackexchange)...and now whenver I try to log out and then log in ...
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Do answers become community wiki too easily?
This is a situation I find quite frustrating, which seems to be happening to me a lot lately.
I will answer a question. After pondering it, I may think of some additional points.
Later I will go ...
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What is on topic on Cross Validated?
There have been many threads on CV-meta about whether questions are on-topic, off-topic, are too-localized, etc.
For example:
Are "find the distribution" questions on topic?
Is a ...
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Are “find the distribution” questions on topic?
Disclaimer: I am not a regular participant in Cross Validated, but a moderator on Maths.
We received a flag stating that this question should be migrated here. It is of the form: "given a data set, ...
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How to get help on stats when reviewing a paper for publication
I'm reviewing a paper for publication at the moment and I find the statistical methods in it quite questionable. But I've only got limited experience and don't want to call them out on something that ...
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Should the gmm tag be added?
I would like to suggest adding the gmm tag for growth mixture modeling. This would help when asking questions specific to this area. There are a number of questions on this topic, e.g.:
How are the ...
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What is the intraday activity profile like for CV
I understand that there is a SQL database type way of looking at activity on a stack exchange site - so if someone in the know could explain how to answer this that would be great.
Anecdotally I've ...
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Should the homework tag be deprecated?
Apparently the use of the homework tag was deprecated on SO. This is actually mentioned in the same meta that our FAQ points to in describing how to ask/answer homework questions. However, elsewhere ...
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How should a new user navigate Cross Validated to learn more about statistics?
(Inspired by this question, I thought it might be worthwhile to post a guide for those who just want to read and learn.)
What are the best ways for someone new to Cross Validated to sift through ...
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1answer
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Is there a way to attract a users attention?
I know if I comment after someone, or after their answer or their question, then they will be notified. But is there are more general way to attract people's attention? For example (hope he doesn't ...
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Why is our answer rate so low?
Has anyone else noticed that we are 5th from bottom with an answer rate of only 76%?
On the one hand there are some questions that appear "answered" in the comments, like this one:
Is the percent of ...
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Multiple questions or one big question?
I have a series of questions related to something I have been working on. As they share the same background information, I originally wanted to post a big question with many multiple parts. On further ...
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Are questions about terminology off topic?
I just discovered this site, and I had a question that has been bugging me for a while. My question isn't so much about a concept as it is about terminology, so I thought I'd check whether this kind ...
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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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Should most R tags be replaced with package tags?
The R tag covers an enormous number of questions, many of which aren't really about R in general, but how to use a specific package. There appear to have already been some grumblings about this in ...
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Should tags refer to the answer as well as the question?
In some instances the question doesn't itself fit a particular tag, but the accepted answer/popular answers do. If tags are a useful guide for others then it could make sense to re-tag based on the ...
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$JSM2013 - Sponsorship Proposal
This meta post is the placeholder for discussion of how CV will be represented on JSM 2013. Let me start by addressing the information requests in the SE Meta post that suggested the ways to have ...
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Is it ok to answer a question with bounty myself?
I have posted this question.
I had set a bounty on it and I have found the answer in the meanwhile.
Can I answer it myself? There are no answers by others neither comments so far...
Thanks!
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JSM 2013 mixer?
Should we guys try to arrange a meeting on the JSM 2013? It's the business meeting requests time now through March, I believe. (Sorry for the North American bias here, but this is the biggest ...
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What standard should be applied in deciding whether a question requires sufficient 'statistical expertise' to be posted to CV?
The FAQ currently states:
If the language is statistically oriented (such as R, SAS, Stata,
SPSS, etc.), then decide based on the nature of your question: if it
needs statistical expertise to ...
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What's the deal with the new about page?
What's the story with the new about page? It's fancy now. I like it, and I suspect it'll be more useful for new CV users this way. (Side question: Should we link to it from the FAQ?)
I will say ...
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At what point do I have to reference/acknowledge stackexchange (users)?
This question is about placing a footnote acknowledgement in an academic paper that some idea (or the seed of the idea) was based on some stackexchange question that I asked. I ended up doing this for ...
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Community Promotion Ads - 2013
As it is December 2012, we are now going to reset our Community Promotion Ads for the new year. Apparently no one caught (or at least, no one pointed out) that I accidentally put DIY's ad proposal ...
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Cross-crediting of CrossValidated reputation to StackOverflow?
This is moderately different to my title -- short story is that I'd like to be able to upvote questions/answers on StackOverflow, but am likely to only ever participate interactively on ...
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CrossValidated in classrooms? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Using CV as part of a statistics course
Along the lines of promoting and improving CrossValidated, how can it be used in the college classroom? I know that some stats ...
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Improvement Drive - Cross Validated
Greetings from Stack Exchange HQ! We have been assigned to evaluate Cross Validated and recommend some methods for making it even better. Please note that this is a more hands-on evaluation, and is ...
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Upright greek letters
I was wondering if anyone knew how I could produce upright greek letters on stats.SE? In my documents, I usually do this using the $\LaTeX$ upgreek package.
Edit
I am uploading an image of what I ...
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Should Cross Validated participate in the “Winter Bash” Holiday hats promotion?
The Stack Exchange team is organizing an original event, in the spirit of the one organized last year on the Gaming site, called Hat Dash, where users earned "hats" for their gravatars by completing ...
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How to ask a “good” question on CrossValidated?
Background
First of all please note that I have been a user on SE sites for over two years now; more than 20 months on CV. While active on StackOverflow and Sports.SE I never quite managed to get ...
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Why the this question is not eligible for being a wiki?
I write in the response to the comments of moderator @chl on this queston: Methods for multiple comparisons correction with bootstrap for multiple glm models
Please tell me, why it is not apropriate ...
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Tag merge: average and averages
I noticed that there are both tags average and averages. Is there any subtle difference in meaning between the two? That plural form of the tag doesn't have a tag wiki, so I'd suggest making it a ...
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What does a reputation distribution, and its evolution with time, tell us about a particular SE site?
Firstly, how would one obtain such a distribution and its evolution with time?
Secondly, what kind of inferences can be drawn from such a distribution? (I could try this, if I knew answer to previous ...
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Would this question (closed on Skeptics) on firearms risks be on-topic on CrossValidated?
This interesting question was closed at Skeptics:
Is owning a handgun for personal protection justifiable under risk analysis?
The question involves quite a bit of statistics. Is such applied ...
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Tag Map for CrossValidated
I've just made a map of tags for CrossValidated.
In short: tag size is related to tag popularity and edges are related to tag co-occurrences in questions (or more precisely: the observed/expected ...
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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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The homework tag and homework policy
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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Exact duplicate or not: Recent question on mathematics needed for ML
I think this question was closed incorrectly: How to get an introductory understanding of Machine Learning? This asked, "Is a strong background in maths a total requisite for ML? Should I try and fill ...
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Why doesn't my meta account show up in my network profile?
http://stackexchange.com/users/1445301/joe-king?tab=accounts
My meta account for SO shows up, but not for CV - is there a reason for that ?
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Feedback on Migrating Questions [closed]
This is a quick note on point totals when a recent question was migrated. Here's the link:
http://stats.stackexchange.com/posts/8164/revisions
During the migration, my total dropped 175 points in ...
