Internet Support for Statistics Software
A discussion in fall 2010 considered the extent to which purely software-related questions would be welcome on this site. It didn't really reach a conclusion, but one useful suggestion that arose is to...
View ArticleDistribution of question and answer votes on CV
My question is simple theoretically, but probably not so simple practically...Is there a way to check the distribution of question votes vs answer votes on CV? My assumption is that people are more...
View ArticleHow to vote on partial answers?
At times I see that someone will provide an answer that, while not directly addressing all of the points in a question, will nonetheless give a good insight on something that is either partially...
View ArticleHow to request reason for closing
My question was closed for lack of enough detail and no private feedback was provided as to what detail is exactly missing, which is not how I read it is supposed to be. Even though I cannot think of a...
View ArticleNew tag for ethics? Or is there already a tag which can be used?
There are some questions on site which are also about professional ethics. Some examples: Ethics of publishing covariate matrix, Likert Scale - Treatment of Neutral or Mid-Point of 5-Pt Scale (and...
View ArticleIs it on topic to ask about derivation of mathematical statistical formulae?
I am studying multilevel/hierarchical models and I have trouble deriving the mathematical formulae for certain models. Is it on topic to ask about this ? I mean, I fit a model with software, and I want...
View ArticleUnanswered questions
I know this has been discussed here on CV meta before, but the most recent discussion I can find is quite old, so I thought it might be worth a new question.We have a lot of unanswered questions....
View ArticleWhy is this question marked as unanswered?
This question is on the list of unanswered questions, even though it has an answer that has many upvotes (including, now, mine). Am I missing something or is this a bug of some kind?
View ArticleShould we close old, outdated and off-topic questions?
Please consider the following question:Good GUI for R suitable for a beginner wanting to learn programming in R?. I just voted to close it as off-topic. Besides being off-topic it is also outdated...
View ArticleWhat tags cover data dredging?
There does not seem to be any one tag covering all of data dredging. The tags I can find are [p-hacking], [stepwise regression], [feature selection] and [model selection]. Are there any other tags that...
View ArticleIf someone asks "What is the intuition behind the idea that for linear...
Since this question asks for an intuition behind the idea:What is the intuition behind the idea that for linear regression, the number of observations should exceed the number of parameters?I thought I...
View ArticleEditing questions: dos and don'ts
What is the etiquette for editing questions? How much is it OK to modify? What are the guidelines and what are the limits?I am concerned that once a question has been edited, the difficulties facing...
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Bug: MathJax/LaTeX mathbb font in array
I recently answered a question using the following code$$\begin{array}\mathbb P\Big(X = \mu+\frac12\left(\gamma+\sqrt{4\kappa-3\gamma^2}\right)\sigma\Big) &=&...
View ArticleWhat to do with questions that have bad or incomplete code?
Many people include code in either their questions or their answers, in R or Python or some other language. That's fine. I'm not talking about questions that fall under the 'asking for code'...
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Google Cloud will be Sponsoring Cross Validated SE
We're excited to announce that Google Cloud will be sponsoring Cross Validated Stack Exchange beginning January 9th, going through March 31st. We wanted to give you a heads-up and walk you through what...
View ArticleChatgpt and similar chat bots are trained using CV content. Did we agree to it?
When we started contributing to CV we did not foresee the content would be used to train chat bots and that chat bots would be as profitable as they are.Did we consent to the content to be used to...
View ArticleShould we opt for the banner warning the usage of AI-generated contents?
A new banner highlighting the policy on using AI-generated material has been developed and experimentally used (to be graduated) at SO and it has resulted$^\dagger$ in[...] a reduction in posts flagged...
View ArticleHow to detect and address wayward trends in questions?
I've noticed several questions popping up recently on the topic of Bayesian Optimization. Many of the questions are bizarre, full of misconceptions, and (as some moderators have noted) perfect examples...
View ArticleShould we have a "nonlinear multilevel analysis" tag?
The title basically tells it. Multilevel models are pretty popular as a question topic and it might be good to have a separate tag for the nonlinear type. But I'm not sure if it's needed.Link to the...
View ArticleIs it off-topic to ask for examples of situations where a lack of statistical...
Sorry for the long-winded question title. During interviews for a junior data scientist position I have noticed that almost every interviewer I have talked to (not recruiters or "talent managers", but...
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