Questions tagged [support]
Use this tag to indicate you need help with the use of one or more of the site's features.
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Where to ask if a simulation is correctly performed?
I've done a simulation with R and would like to post it on my blog explaining the steps I took.
The program simulates a player playing at a famous game and is aimed at estimating the probability of ...
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Cannot add comments to my own post
I am trying to comment on my own, active bounty, open question, here:
Classify users by the pages they liked
and for some reason the page is not responding to my click on the "add comment" button.
I ...
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How exactly are three user's tags selected for the "Users" page?
If I go to the "Users" page and search for myself, clicking on the "all" reputation tag, I find myself displayed with the following three tags in the following order: [pca], [dimensionality-reduction]...
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Problem with the Mortarboard badge?
I had got a reputation of 225 (200+) on a day, but wasn't awarded the Mortarboard badge.
So, just wanted to know whether the badge is still active or is the explanation of the badge wrong; so that it ...
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Creating a new tag for Julia language
I wanted to create a new tag for Julia language, which already exists in Stack Overflow. But, as I do not have a question in order to create a tag, I wanted to know how do I do it.
Update: So, there ...
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How to find the list of my rejected edits?
I saw it before here, but now I can't. I checked meta SE and found this. I was able to see my rejected edits in Math SE (I'm 140308) but not in Stats SE/CV (I'm 44339 ).
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Is this version of the site real, or a phishing scam?
While searching around google, I found the following site:
Potentially Fake Site! (Doesn't load on mobiles)
I almost logged in to it using my google account, then noticed the bizarre URL.
Is this a ...
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Is there an SVG version of the CV logo?
SVG versions of a few logos are available here. Is there an SVG version of the CrossValidated logo available somewhere?
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Review queue and skip button
I just had a quick look at the first-post review queue to see if there were any questions I could helpfully edit.
The answer was no (in the time I had to do so), so I pressed 'skip' for each of ...
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Many (historical) duplicate questions - how to pick a "canonical" question?
I want to bring this up here rather than mass-flagging a whole bunch of questions as duplicates (and also avoiding the issue of choosing one as the "base")
This question from today is a new member of ...
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Changing the parameters/settings of my subscription
Honestly I don't know where else to put this question, so here goes.
I would like to subscribe to certain tags, but I do not want to receive daily mails, each of a different tag. How do I change this?...
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Why was the bounty not awarded to me?
First I answered this question on March 30 (the same day as the question was posted). Later I got two upvotes.
Then a bounty was started on that question some time in mid-April. I received two ...
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Have Latex tables stopped working?
In a range of browsers, I've found that $\LaTeX$ tables no longer seem to work on this site. Neither of these posts display correctly:
How to test for a synergistic effect of A & B with ...
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How to get rid of wrong "This question may already have an answer here"?
One of my questions got an obviously wrong "This question may already have an answer here" attached to it (I give an explanation at the end of the question):
Is the degrees-of-freedom explanation for ...
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Using all votes in Elections
I didn't see anywhere that it specifies whether or not we have to use all of our votes in elections. I know that process for determining winners is STV, under which it is possible to include voters ...
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How best to leave comments on questions and answers in the review queue?
I notice that regular Review Queue patrollers often leave a stock comment, particularly on "first posts" and "low quality posts". There are many issues that arise time and again, ...
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Sending a private message to another user? [duplicate]
Since I don't have the enough reputation to "add a comment" (less than 50), I was surprised that I can't find the way to send a private message to another user.
How can I do that?
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Number of tags versus number of views
I noticed that some questions with many tags get low views. Is that a coincidence? If I want to avoid getting low views, should I use fewer or more tags? I have no intention of abusing tags to ...
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How to write R code in my posts?
I am a new member of this group. How can I write the R code while commenting or posting? I read also the previously asked questions related to this but don't get my answer.
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Printing pdf with just the answer, rather than the whole page
Some answer are so interesting that I would like to print them, to read them again later on.
I would also like to take advantage of the latex format, instead of printing the whole page, and print a ...
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"Possible duplicate" label vs. "This question already has an answer here"
I noted that the old duplicates and the new duplicates have different formatting.
The questions that are now getting closed as duplicate get a bluish plaque on top saying "This question already has ...
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Managing different accounts in Cross Validated
I have an account in Stack Overflow and as well in Cross Validated with different user id. Is it possible to link the two accounts from different user ID?
If yes , then how to link both the accounts ...
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Why do I see some questions with a blue background?
I just noticed that in the "Questions" view, I see some questions with a blue background, e.g., the first one here:
Is this some new feature?
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Why was an answer considered off-topic and when it was deleted?
One of my recent answers got deleted while it got scoring of +12/-2 and for some time it was the accepted answer. I would consider this scoring to be rather positive. The answer that got deleted ...
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Best practice: How to request clarification from the author without 50 rep to comment?
I'm new to Stack Exchange and want to answer questions, but without 50 rep I can't post a comment asking the OP for clarification. Is there a clear guideline for what to do in this situation? (If so,...
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When should answers be self-deleted?
I'm new here. Yesterday (my time) I answered this question. In the subsequent micro-discussion that took place in the comments, discovered that I had, in fact, misread the intent of the question, and ...
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Reopening and migrating a valid coding question from Crossvalidated to Stackoverflow
I have come across a vibrant question - how does one visualize results of post hoc Nemenyi tests - on Crossvalidated. This question is often raised in my institute and by students or peers at ...
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The Talkative Badge?
I just received notification that I have earned the Talkative Badge for posting 10 messages in Cross Validated chat rooms with one or more of them starred. I can recall only one message that I have ...
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Is it ok to ask for guidance on my research project?
I am a novice in statistics and would like some guidance in data analysis for my research project. I just want to make sure that it is ok to post my research question, method, and ask the community ...
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Is there a way to unflag?
I incorrectly flagged a post (simply caused by me being especially unobservant) before realizing I should have just voted-to-close (which I then did).
Is there a way for me to unflag, so I don't ...
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All reputation is gone
I am sorry to post here but Cross Validated did a merge on my account and I lost all reputation points on my stats forum and I cannot post to meta without any reputation points. I don't know what this ...
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Our name on SE Data Explorer is Statistical Analysis. Is this by design?
Is it on purpose that our name on the Stack Exchange Data Explorer is 'Statistical Analysis' rather than 'Cross Validated'.
This is not only on the main page, but also when one is inside a query and ...
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Did the interface change, did I lose a privilege, or is everything just slightly wonky?
I've just noticed that I no longer seem to have the ability to recommend some posts for closure (which I noticed because I wanted to do something with a link only post – I eventually took the ...
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How to filter for questions that had a bounty on them?
I enjoy serendipitously learning new stuff based on answered questions on CV. But given the volume of questions a day, I end up only sampling from the newest questions, which are more likely than not ...
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Why am I not gaining reputation for upvotes?
(Apologies if this is the wrong forum/format, I am open to guidance.)
I posted a question yesterday (What is your favorite statistical graph?), modeled along the lines of another well received ...
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Would a bounty generate an answer for my quantile question?
Would a bounty generate an answer for this question? Is there someone who is willing to work on it for points or is it generally unanswerable or what? Nick already told me it was very localized and ...
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Review flag does not indicate items to review
I notice that now there seems to be a rust colored flag between my usercard and "review" in the top bar. As I type this, it reads 4. Clicking on it takes me to ...
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Finding where/how reputation went down
I noticed an increase in my reputation today further to an upvote to one of my answers. Surprisingly, the increase is 6 units, not 10.
I'm aware of the ways one can gain/lose reputation (also saw this ...
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Merge users with same e-mail?
I recently signed up here and had expected that a previous question I posted without signing up (although giving my e-mail adress) would be merged such that it would be attributed to my account. This ...
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Accepting an answer of another/duplicate question
My question turned out to be a duplicate. Yet, it gathered some good answers. However, one of the answers to the other, first, question suits me best. Can I accept it as best answer to my question?
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Not able to read deleted replies with rep >10k?
I have recently magically increased my reputation to be 32k, but I still can't read those deleted replies and comments, for example here. Can I?
p.s. Happy everyday!
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Am I allowed to attach PDFs of papers to questions?
I have quite a few questions in mind that would work much better if I could attach PDFs of academic papers to the post. I could then refer to the PDF in the question. I have access to the PDFs through ...
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Markdown link not being rendered as a hyperlink?
In a recent Answer I posted on CV, I included markdown for a link, just like I have done thousands of times on CV and SO. This time the link text wasn't rendered as a hyperlink, either using the ...
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Common Issues and FAQs
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 ...
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Edited by community moderator bot (1 diamond rep)
I see that older threads are marked as modified by the community moderator bot, although there are no actual edits. It brings up unanswered questions on my active list, some of which are quite ...
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Does this question belong here?
On cogsci there was migrated a question from academia. I think it better fits here I could be wrong but the design looks like a multivariable feed forward neural network.
https://cogsci.stackexchange....
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Tag-related problems with migrations from MathOverflow
Recently there were some discussions on MathOverflow and Mathematics and Meta Stack Overflow related to an automatic check on tags that is performed when a question is migrated:
It is checked if at ...
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Where is the FAQ?
I found a question on StackOverflow that I thought might be more of a statistics question, so I thought I would head over to stats.SE to check out the FAQ to see what's on-topic.
There's no obvious ...
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Retrieving the answer of a deleted question
I provided an answer to this deleted question: Calculating power function for ANOVA.
I was looking for my answer and that's how I've discovered the question has been deleted. Is there a way to ...
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What happens to the bounty if there's no answer? [duplicate]
Last week I started a question which got not answers so I set up a bounty. The Help center states:
If you do not award your bounty within 7 days (plus the grace period),
the highest voted answer ...
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