You need help with the use of one or more of the site's features.
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Who decided what badges there are and how you get them?
I was looking through the badges. Some have never been awarded! Some seem pretty much impossible to get, and one or two seem to be almost "anti-badges" - e.g. "unsung hero".
Are these badges the same ...
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How to contact other user?
Someone posted a helpful answer on one of my questions on quant finance exchange. Now I want to contact him. How can I do this? Can I write him an email?
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Are comments searchable?
I remember great comments on questions here to which I'd like to point.
It's easy enough to get the URL of a given comment. The problem is to find great comments back. Are comments searchable (if ...
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Comments on comments and communicating with a commenter
If I respond to a comment with a comment or question directed to the commenter, does the commenter necessarily see it?
If not, is there any way I can draw their attention to it? I assumed the site ...
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Are commenters notified when the original post is edited?
I wanted to know if commenters receive notifications when the original post they commented on, has been edited. I've received some editing suggestions through comments for one of my previously asked ...
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0answers
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What does the red number refer to next to “favorites”?
I might be being dumb here, but I don't understand notifications for favorites. I presume the number in red that I see when I go to my profile is telling me that that many of my favorites have had ...
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When is it a good time to give up on a bad question?
I tried to ask a Question, about 6 days ago.
Since I am new to the field, apparently my question apparently is too broad or vague. I have read a good guide, how to ask good questions, but sadly this ...
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Why was this migrated to StackOverflow?
I believe that this question belongs on CV since it is not a question on how to write code, but the error probably results from the specified model. Why was it migrated?
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Can my question be moved to CrossValidated please?
Can my question be moved to CrossValidated please? I have flagged the question on SO and asked it to be moved here.
Reason: the package author is active on CV but not SO. He has kindly given some ...
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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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1answer
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OpenID associated with a wrong account
I am using my friends computer and I was trying to make a new account for stackexchange, but I must have done something wrong because now my email/ID is linked to my friend's account, and it didn't ...
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1answer
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How do you cast delete votes?
Among the 10k privileges is the privilege to cast delete votes. I did a search of meta.SO and found lots of discussion of delete votes but nowhere is it made clear how to cast them. I thought it would ...
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1answer
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I have the min reqd. 10 reputation points so why am I not able to post image?
As required by the community, I've 10 rep points which are needed to post an image. I need to post a function as an image and my research is stuck with every passing day of inactivity, I honestly ...
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How to find community wiki
I know it is stupid question, but honestly, I can't find any link that would point me there.
Maybe it doesn't exist in a way I expect it to find? Maybe there is no wiki per se, and one makes entry ...
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1answer
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Removing Obscured Comment
Unfortunately, in error, I have accidentally posted a comment which was not well formatted. Since then I have tried to remove it, but owing to the nature of the formatting, the delete button has been ...
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2answers
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Is there a way to see tags that have no wiki?
Tags are often more useful with WIKIs attached. Is there a way to see only the tags that are not defined?
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1answer
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Why does the $\LaTeX$ cases environment not work?
In the last few days I have twice tried to use \cases in $\LaTeX$ and gotten nowhere. Why does it not work?
Or, if it does, how does it work?
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1answer
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$\LaTeX$ macros for expectation, variance and covariance?
Is it possible for Stack Exchange to make available $\LaTeX$ abbreviations for \mathrm{E}, \mathrm{Var}, ...
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2answers
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Is there a way to view users by city/country?
I would like to know if there are any user located near me geographically. Is there a way to view users by city/country?
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1answer
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Markdown, R code and dollar sign?
Here is a dummy piece of R code.
pca <- prcomp(matrix(rnorm(10*10), ncol=10))
pca$x
pca$rotation
The third line appears indented, whereas it is not in the ...
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1answer
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How does a question become unclosed?
My original question was closed due to 'possible duplicate'. This was by accident because the question I meant to ask was not the question that I asked.
So, I edited my question by wording it better. ...
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1answer
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How to save favorite users?
How can I save my favorite users in the profile? Why would it be possible to mark "favorite" questions but not users?
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1answer
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I have a question answered through a comment and not an answer
Just in browsing (I hadn't been to the site in a while) I've noticed one of my previous questions has been nudged by Community onto the list of latest questions. The question itself was answered but ...
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1answer
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Is there a way to attach a file?
Is there a way to attach a file such as .txt or .xlsx to my question? If not then what no-cost alternatives do I have?
BTW I work at a high security national laboratory so I can not post it online ...
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Is it possible to give yourself reputation points?
Yesterday I noticed that a person answered his own question. That didn't concern me so much because it looked like he honestly didn't know the answer but found it as he did more research. But what ...
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1answer
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Undelete request
all. I deleted a question right before someone answered it and now I am trying to undelete it, but can't because I don't have enough reputation. I reposted an identical question on ...
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How to contact a user?
Sorry if I am stupid but I don't find how to send a private message to a user. Isn't it possible ? I took a look at the user's profile as well as the faq.
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1answer
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Crossposting on the stackexchange network
When a question is at the intersection of many fields, is it possible a crosspost on different stackexchange sites?
For example, if I formulate a question that could involve knowledge from Physics, ...
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1answer
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What level of reputation do you have to get to, to be able to comment in all posts?
I have a query regarding being able to comment in all posts? Currently my reputation only allows me a privilege of being able to comment in the main forum on certain posts (the level is about 44% for ...
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1answer
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Advice when regarding pasting data into questions and can it be done in comments or just answers?
I think I may have partly solved my own query in the main forum (another person asked me to come back with a QQ plot in comments and the QQ plot suggests a normal distribution) and to find out if I ...
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1answer
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Need help un-mixing mixed up comments in a migrated question
The comment dialogue under the OP in How to run two-way ANOVA on data with neither normality nor equality of variance in R? would be much more clear and relevant if the comments made by myself and ...
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1answer
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Is there any rhyme or reason in how the tags are ordered?
If I edit a question to add tags, when the question is re-posted, the tags are shuffled from the order in which they had appeared. Is there some principle that governs the resulting order? I can't ...
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1answer
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Unclaimed bounty points: where did they go?
I set a bounty of 50 points on one of my questions last week. Unfortunately, it was never answered. After the bounty expired, shouldn't the points have come back to my account, since it was offered ...
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1answer
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Statistics Chat Room
A quick search for "chat" in the questions turns up this. But from what I interpret this is for meta-discussion. So, is there a chat room for stats? If not, can there be? I don't see a link at the top ...
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Account merging
The accounts http://stats.stackexchange.com/users/9569/stat-r, and http://stats.stackexchange.com/users/9583/stat-r should probably be merged because they have been created from the same person, who ...
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1answer
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Missing reputation?
Yesterday, stats.SE showed I had a rep of 503. Today, it shows I have a rep of 501. The missing 2 points are not listed in my activity anywhere.
Furthermore, meta.stats.SE still indicates that I have ...
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1answer
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Recover a closed question?
I have asked to close a question, but now it cannot be found anymore. It is not even on the list of my questions. Is there a way to recover it? The link is: http://stats.stackexchange.com/q/23529
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1answer
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Math processing error
I keep getting math processing errors. I've tried force refreshing the page and clearing the browser cache and cookies and that doesn't seem to have done anything. Is there a site-wide issue with ...
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1answer
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What are escape characters to search for e.g. “p >> N”?
How can I search for e.g. "p >> N" -- are there escape characters, "p\>\> N" ?
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Can code-review be relevant here?
I'm fairly new to stackexchange so bear with me.
I have a code review for some lines of matlab over at ...
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Is there an easier way to prove I'm not a robot?
After 4 attempts at captcha images I finally managed to prove I'm a real person and have my answer posted. Is there any easier way to do it? Something that doesn't involve squinting at the screen to ...
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1answer
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Synonym merging suggestion for users with under 2.5k?
Is there any way for a user with under 2.5k reputation to suggest synonym mergers?
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Is there something like “follow this question”?
When I find a interesting question asked by others, so I want to know what's the answer. However, this question has not been answered (or get a satisfactory answer), i want to know "follow" this ...
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Can the unanswered questions change?
The top unanswered questions haven't changed since I first started using CrossValidated. I'm tempted to post useless answers just to get these questions out of the way so I can actually use the ...
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1answer
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“messages” from a deleted post? “inbox”?
One of my posts was deleted and I couldn't find the reason for closure or whatever the last comments made on the thread were. Am I missing a piece of functionality? Or is that information gone for ...
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Are moderators notified by votes to close a question?
Question: Do moderators receive any sort of notification when a vote to close is submitted by a user with 3000+ reputation?
It appears that if a user with 3000+ chooses to flag and picks "doesn't ...
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Many hours of work on tags reverted without discussion - moderator abusing their commission? [closed]
Yesterday I spotted that on stats.stackexchange.com questions that request analytical solutions of statistical problems and answers that give nicely derived answers using mathematical calculus are not ...
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Lost myOpenID account and access: Here is the fix
Tonight I completely lost my OpenID and credentials to sign in to stats.SE and math.SE. I was also unable to "recover" them via the "Recover" link on the myOpenID web sign-in and that site does not ...
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1answer
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Inconsistent processing of search requests
Linking through the multiple-comparisons tab gives a page listing 47 tagged questions (as of this moment). The textbox in the upper right corner reads "[multiple-comparisons]". Typing in another ...
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1answer
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Delete comments when migrating to other SE site
I flagged this post as off-topic and more suitable for SO. I had a two-part comment that listed four possible duplicate questions on SO. When the question was migrated, the first half of my comment ...
