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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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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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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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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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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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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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Should we have a tag for questions about pre-post treatment designs?
I follow (with interest) questions and answers that talk about pre-post experimental or quasi-experimental research designs. I have noted quite a few questions that ask about this particular research ...
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Redundant tags: mixed effects and related models
Recently a question came up that I felt had several redundant tags for variants of multilevel or mixed-effects models. As far as I can tell, there are six tags I can find that are related to this ...
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Blacklist the “output” tag?
Seven questions are tagged with "output". To me it seems this tag is ambiguous, without any special meaning or use, and in fact it may often signal that a question should be migrated (in the cases ...
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Add tags for sequencing, sequence analysis or TraMineR?
I'm currently starting an online course for social sequence analysis using the R package TraMineR. We plan to use stats.stackexchange.com to support the course and the evolving social sequence ...
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Synonyms for the “Test” tags
Stats.SE seems to have a few ambiguous / synonymous tags:
test x 49
testing x 23
hypothesis-testing x 497
The former two are even missing a description. I'll leave merging and creating appropriate ...
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Should the data-visualization and figure tags be merged?
Should the data-visualization and figures tags be merged?
There is no wiki description for ...
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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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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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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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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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Can we have a self-study tag?
There are lots of good questions on CV asking for references for self study, or for methods of learning, or other self study resources (a search for ...
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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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“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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Tag request: [tag:analytic-form]
This question:
Steps to figure out a posterior distribution when it might be simple enough to have an analytic form?
leads me to idea we need analytic-form tag. There might be plenty other similar ...
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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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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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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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Homework tag for old exam questions?
When a user asks questions from old exams in preparation for an upcoming exam should we apply the "homework" tag, even if the old exams aren't necessarily assigned for a grade? I'm ambivalent; it's ...
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Reputation required for editing tag wikis and approving edits
I've now got over 5000 reputation, which I see means I can approve edits to tag wikis. However, I can't edit tag wikis until I reach 20000 reputation (see tag info for the 'distributions' tag, for ...
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Merging tags, should we do it? How to do it significance-test/statistical-significance Mathematical-statistics/mathematic
The two tags significance-test and statistical-significance
are very similar. The same thing occurs with Mathematics and mathematical-statistics
I guess these should be merged. What do you think ? if ...
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How to treat open data analysis questions
Sometimes questions are asked, which can be roughly described as:
A: I have an unsorted heap of data (so it is sometimes more, sometimes less required to create predictors)
B: I have a ...
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Could 'r' tag be displayed as a capital 'R'?
Is there any chance of making the 'r' tage display as 'R'? I think it would make its meaning clearer. Must confuse newbies.
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Merge 3 classification and regression tree tags?
We have the following tags:
cart (4 questions)
classification-trees (2 questions)
regression-trees (1 question)
Shall we merge them, or make them synonyms? (sorry I'm still not really sure of ...
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(k)-nearest neighbo(u)r tags
We now have tags 'k-nearest-neighbor' and 'nearest-neighbour'. I'm not familiar enough with this particular branch of statistics to be sure whether they mean more-or-less the same thing. There's also ...
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Merge tags -> Duplicate tags
I recently merged [graphical-techniques] into [data-visualization]. I was expecting this to remove the graphical-techniques tags when the other tag already existed, but instead it added duplicates.
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Correcting tag misspellings
How does one merge tags? Does it take a moderator? (The "multicolinearity" tag is a misspelling of "multicollinearity", for example, and should be removed permanently. Or should we allow misspelled ...
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New tag - large-data
A number of questions concern plotting/analysing large data sets. Therefore, it seems sensible to have a "large-data" tag. However, I don't like this name.
Any suggestions for a better name - or is ...
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What should be rules for making and using tags?
One rule per answer, upvote if you agree, downvote if disagree.
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Is it possible to edit tags without bouncing the question to the top?
The recent spate of re-tags initiated by mbq has pushed a lot of questions to the top of the site. Editing tags and re-tagging etc do not change the question content and hence I am not sure why the ...
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Guidance on creating and organizing tags
Prompted by the "new tag suggestions" question, I wondered about
"guidance on tagging principles: should we aim for more generality, thereby associating each tag with more threads and enriching their ...
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New tag suggestions
Now that we have a fair number of questions on the site, let's see if there are any additional ways that we should be organizing everything. Please post one new tag idea per answer, along with an ...
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What to write in tag wikis?
As one can see, the functionality of tags has been extended lately; blog post about it. One of the most important changes are the tag-wikis; now every tag can have a small description of a topic it ...
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Suggestion: Delete [data]-tag, or is there something more to it, I don't see?
I just saw there is a data tag around and do not understand what the possible meaning of this tag is and, therefore, would recommend to delete it.
Right now, there ...
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The final death of meta-tags?
Done, no more beginner and subjective.
It does happened on SO, SU and SF: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/the-death-of-meta-tags/
So shall we follow? Beginner is the most used tag here...
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Is it possible to tag user profile
There already exist tags for question. Is it possible to create tags for users profile? (with say less than 5 tag) ? this could help us to be able to characterize the community and create appropriate ...
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Should we have a “statistics” tag?
I just noticed the statistics tag. If this tag was applied consistently to the site then (almost?) all questions would have this tag. Should it be deleted?
I would suggest removing the tag.
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I just want to take this on early: Can we please, please NOT use the [beginner] tag or any similar tags.
I'm of the belief that tags should be used to describe the content in a way that is understood by everyone. The word "beginner" and similar words (I've seen "fundamental" and "fundamentals" thrown out ...
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Tag rename suggestions
Which tags do you think should be renamed? Let's add here tag-rename requests as answers. We can vote up answers to indicate that we agree with that tag-rename request and use the comments to discuss ...
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How to remove tags?
There are a few tags that have no questions. I think these were previously attached to questions which have been re-tagged. For example, I changed timeseries to time-series on one question. Someone ...
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Modeling vs. Modelling tag
Already there are two tags for this ("Modeling" and "Modelling"). Should we, very early on, decide on one tag and try to edit posts in order to keep consistency and better searching?
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Should we tag “best-of” lists with “best-of”?
I think that these subjective list questions are useful, so it would be nice to have a separate tag for them (as in this example: ...
