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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Where to ask clinical trial / regulatory questions relating to (medical) statistics?
I'm not sure if questions about statistics in the context of clinical trials belong to cross validated, especially if regulatory aspects come into play.
Example for such a question would be:
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Test of notification mechanisms
(This question first appeared on our main site). It tests a hypothesis about user notification. We were wondering whether inserting an "@" when editing a question would cause the user to be ...
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Does being on StackExchange help get consulting jobs?
I previously asked a question as to whether or not StackExchange hurts a consultants business because of all the free advice one can readily obtain here. Some felt that the advice given was for basic ...
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Why does it seem that many people here don't know how to use Google
I have observed many times that people ask questions that have the specificity to be solved by a Google search. Yet they come to us and ask us. Often it could be fro a reference on a statistical ...
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How exactly does 'Community' randomly decide to bump posts?
I'd imagine this information is somewhere but I looked for a while and couldn't find anything in the FAQ or in a previous question.
Does anyone have any information about how exactly Community ...
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Does anyone use 'search'?
I have several times used the search function to see if someone has previously asked a question I am interested in, with no positive result. I then start asking my question and then very quickly the ...
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Should we tag questions that smell like homework?
This is related to, but not a duplicate of, How should we deal with obvious homework questions
Homework questions have certain characteristics - vague, sample data, inclusion of instructions meant ...
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Is a question about formatting a figure on topic here?
I just asked the question how to label a constant y-axis in a grid of plots?
Technically, it is about 'visualizing data', and I expect that cv.SE users would have good answers, but I am not sure if ...
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What to do with unnecessary tags?
I've found some information on the meta about merging tags by proposing synonyms, but what about the case where the asker of a question creates a tag whose necessity is debatable? If this does overlap ...
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At the 11 comments mark do I need to move my question to chat?
I've asked a question in the main forum that got one answer, and it's been followed up and improved via the comments section (there was an initial downgrade due to a poor title which was my fault and ...
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What to do when the original question is transformed considerably after getting clarification?
I know that deleting one's own question is not encouraged on this site but I'm curious about this situation. This question prompted this inquiry. This began as a simple question about how to interpret ...
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What's the best thing to do about rudeness in questions / comments?
I'm thinking of this exchange here Finding the best two predictor variables used conjointly, and levels of each - both in the comments on the original question (and now in the edits to the question) ...
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Why are people providing answers in comments? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Comments that are actually answers
I've noticed that there are many examples of people providing partial answers or pointers in the comments to a question instead of ...
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Does SE have a policy on people with multiple accounts?
This appears to be an issue in this question. Note that the questioner has rep=1, but a person answering the question (inappropriately, it's a really comment responding to another comment) has the ...
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Is Stackexchange a good idea?
I am only in my second week with this site and I have enjoyed many of the questions and answers and discussions but as I get to understand the purpose of the site and how it is being used, I have some ...
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How to stem the tide of duplicate Qs
Please note that I searched on the keywords "duplicate" and "exact-duplicate" before posting this :-)
It seems to be a point of pride for some that this site has hosted so many thousand Qs. But ...
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1answer
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Latex not formatted under review tab
I'm not sure if this is a bug or expected behavior, but I find it a little hard to do reviews for posts including Latex.
Basically when I go to the review screen and see the list of all possible ...
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Economics.SE is closing, can we salvage some of the questions?
I hadn't even heard that there was an Economics Stack Exchange site before I learned that it will be closed down next week along with a bunch of other quiescent beta sites.
It now looks like many of ...
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What does the kernel tag refer to?
I was reviewing the "kernel" tag and this tag may refer to several different items.
In statistics, Kernel has a particular meaning.
However, a commonly encountered use of the term kernel in the ...
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Why is there no “parameter” tag?
When choosing tags for the question: " Is there a difference between the "maximum probability" and the "mode" of a parameter? " I was surprised to find no "parameter" tag.
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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Would questions about Taverna Workbench be appropriate here?
Taverna Workbench has been more and more used, and can be very well used on data mining (I am using on my current research project). However, this also seem to go under a more specific question ...
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Statistical communications questions?
So this site is for statisticians and people with an interest in the discipline, and covers amongst other things, applied statistical analysis and visualising data.
Communicating statistics is a hot ...
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What is appropriate use of the 'Not an answer' flag?
Recently I've had some discussions with @whuber about what constitutes appropriate use of the 'Not an answer' flag where I was referred to this thread:
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StatsExchange - low friction, API-based statistics generator
I'm not 100% sure this is going to be on topic, so I apologize in advance if I'm doing the wrong thing. However, I think this app may be of interest to people who are interested in statistics and ...
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Seventh Cross Validated Journal Club
Time for the seventh iteration!
To remind for those who are new to the idea:
CVJC is a meeting on chat where we discuss some paper and its theoretical/practical surroundings.
It usually takes place ...
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Tags for random forests
At the moment there are two separate tags for questions relating to random forests, randomforest and random-forest. Should these be merged into one? If so, I suggest using random-forest.
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What is the effect of reputation on upvotes?
Has there been any research done on this? I have recently noticed that if CV notices suspicious upvotes, they will negate these upvotes. But, if a user gets say almost 1600 reputation points in ...
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“Nonparametric” tag wiki
An energetic community member has proposed a substantial tag wiki for the nonparametric tag. Because it includes so much, I thought it would benefit from the community participating in improving it ...
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Could we change the accepted answer check to a different color for us color blind folks?
So I just figured out that stack exchange exists like 2 months ago and I am now just getting active in the wonderful world of cross validated and its great.
One thing I came across just now is I ...
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Is there a way to make the blog more prominent? Should we?
In another recent meta question it has been suggested that the community blog be used as a place for some more in-depth discussion and exposition of some topics.
This brings up the following issue ...
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Your votes are useful, use them!
As the community grows up, we face an increasing number of interesting questions, but we can see also, sometimes, some questions that should be closed because they just don't fit within this site. ...
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Public sphere statistical analyses
Is there much precedent or openness to Q&A on the public sphere issues involving statistical methods? This question has three parts: a motivating example, a statistical perspective, and a ...
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Incoming… Machine Learning Questions
There has been strong support to officially merge Machine Learning with Cross Validated. Later this week, we will be migrating questions from the Machine Learning and making it an official part of ...
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Should Machine Learning SE be merged with CrossValidated?
The SE team apparently completely ignored us and the previous consensus and allowed Machine Learning proposal to reach private beta.
And as expected, till now all questions I managed to sneak seems ...
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Should there be a way to indicate answers you're especially proud of on your user profile page?
I've learned an incredible amount on this site from the many great contributors we have. One situation that often occurs is that I notice a particularly insightful answer and I click on the user's ...
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May I ask No Free Lunch theorem questions here that have been asked at math.se?
I have some questions related to No Free Lunch theorem, which is also discussed in machine learning. I am trying to understand the theorem in the setting of optimizing cost functions. I posted it on ...
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renaming the online tag to online-algorithms
If you browse the online tag, you will see that most questions are about online algorithms but a few are about online (as in internet) resources, such as:
Statistics for online dating sites
Online ...
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Cleaning up tags: merging
There seem to be a number of tags that could be merged, e.g. there is "book" and "books" (hmm.. both with 16 followers, I wonder what the overlap is.. :) ).
This seems to be an ongoing topic of ...
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Protocol on deleting an answer
What is the protocol about deleting an answer, especially an accepted answer?
One of the answers I posted today has run into a lot of flak from
people with high reputation. I believe that I am ...
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Data Sourcing: We need to make up our mind
Referencing this proposal on Area 51: http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/37195
and this post here: What is the income distribution in the U.S., in 1% increments?
We have at least one mod (mbq) ...
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Community Promotion Ads - 1H 2012 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Community Promotion Ads - 2013
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the main site, in the ...
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Sixth Cross Validated Journal Club
Time to continue the CVJC series in 2012!
To remind for those who are new to the idea:
CVJC is a meeting on chat where we discuss some paper and its theoretical/practical surroundings.
It usually ...
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How do I find out why “a question here fails to meet quality standards”?
I had a valid question about normal distributions in higher dimensions to ask here.
But I can't -- it "does not meet our quality standards". I can't find any reference to what these standards might ...
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How to get machine-learning contributors from stackoverflow to join our site
I thought that machine learning is a niche on stackoverflow until I have checked just for fun the corresponding tag. It is true that some questions are more programming related than others, but I ...
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Reclaiming my orphan question
I asked this question about a year ago, but it seems to somehow not have been associated with my account. Could someone please help me reclaim it as mine? That is, could you please merge ...
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What should be included in tag wiki excerpt for statistical software?
I just made a tag wiki for sas, and have previously made ones for spss and excel. Within these I try to provide various resources I think posters who ask questions related to these specific software ...
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Is this the correct place for some questions that confused nearly everyone on MO , machine-learning
My name is Will Jagy. I advised a youngster yesterday to ask his question here, and he did, Understanding similarity sensitive hashing algorithm in AdaBoost so I suppose I am following up to see if he ...
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Help us call for proposals for the SE Fellowship on your blog, site or listserv
The SE Research Support and Fellowship Program launched recently with our very own experienced and highly respected users reviewing fellowship applications.
To make the program a success, we need ...
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Tags for references
Something's been bothering me (and it may just be me) about one category of our tags. When someone asks for references for a particular topic, their choices for tags seems to be:
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