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| bio | website | quantdec.com |
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Consultant (environmental and spatial stats a specialty), expert witness, and teacher.
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No tag for sensitivity? There now exists a sensitivity tag, which I created when testing out this answer. It is not yet attached to any questions because I don't know which question(s) you had in mind. |
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answered | No tag for sensitivity? |
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Jun 14 |
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What is on topic on Cross Validated? +1. Even when a question has no explicit statistical content it may be on topic if you can determine that it requires statistical reasoning to be answered correctly! (An example would be someone asking for help in debugging code that obviously is the wrong solution to their actual problem.) Many such questions unfortunately are migrated away to SO before anyone points out their statistical nature. Often, leaving a quick comment asking for clarification will help decide the matter. |
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Jun 8 |
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Is it reasonable to go tag-hunting? Retagging en masse can reflect abuse (although it is not necessarily so). For more about this, please review our last experience with this problem. |
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May 31 |
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A closed question on GIS is again closed and deleted here No problem--as I said, mods are daily subjected to worse. You have distinguished yourself (in a positive way) by acknowledging our mutual responsibility for the fate of your question. I would be glad to continue to help you improve it into something that is on-topic at one of the SE sites. |
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May 31 |
answered | A closed question on GIS is again closed and deleted here |
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May 30 |
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What happened to the idea to start an R-specific StackExchange site? The related thread at meta.stats.stackexchange.com/questions/1/… also provides helpful guidance concerning this community's thoughts about R-related questions. I do not follow the logic to your recent comment: if there is confusion about where to direct R questions when there are two obvious places for them, how would having three sites that field such questions reduce that confusion? I think it would only increase it (exponentially). I do see some merit in having a site dedicated to R programming, basically ripping it out of SO. |
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May 30 |
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What happened to the idea to start an R-specific StackExchange site? Before going any further, please review our site's faq. In particular, data visualization questions are on topic here--unless they are purely about the details of creating a particular visualization on a particular platform: that's a programming question. There was a lot of confusion in the first year or so, but hundreds of comments and helpful guidance provided by high-rep community members in the last year or so indicate there is a pretty clear consensus on what belongs here and what does not. |
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May 30 |
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What happened to the idea to start an R-specific StackExchange site? Could you provide an example of an R-specific question that would fit neither here nor on SO? |
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May 21 |
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Are there guidelines/patterns to follow when choosing between posting a picture or providing its link? Doesn't the edit answer your questions? |
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May 21 |
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Who decided what badges there are and how you get them? It's amazing what some people will do to earn the equivalent of little gold stars... |
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May 21 |
answered | Who decided what badges there are and how you get them? |
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May 16 |
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Data assimilation proposal I was merely paraphrasing the Wikipedia article you linked to, particularly the section prominently titled "Data assimilation as statistical estimation." |
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May 15 |
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Data assimilation proposal It sounds like such a narrow subspecialty of statistical analysis that generating an active SE community will be difficult. Why not foster a subcommunity here, perhaps by encouraging appropriate questions, creating the necessary tags, and maybe contributing to our blog? |
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May 10 |
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Data assimilation proposal The proposal refers only to "numerical weather prediction and climate modelling." In what sense is this "data assimilation"? What do you mean by "data assimilation" anyway, and how exactly does it differ from science, computation, librarianship, or statistics? |
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May 9 |
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How to contact other user? +1 Good link--thanks. |
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May 9 |
answered | How to contact other user? |
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Apr 30 |
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Comments on comments and communicating with a commenter edited tags |
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Apr 26 |
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Points of information for lowly members @gung No, it's closer to 3.5, but that will exactly do the trick here :-). |
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Apr 25 |
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Points of information for lowly members edited tags |
