Code snippet ends with triple backticks
On my question, the very last code snippets ends with the triple backticks "```".The same exact code snippet on StackOverflow does NOT end with the triple backticks (I thought I erred with the Markdown...
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September update: Community Ads are now live network-wide. All ads with a score of 6 or higher, or with a score of 4 or higher and no downvotes will be displayed (except for any that have a note from...
View ArticleChange tag 'metric' into 'metric-distance'
Many newcomer users incorrectly apply tag 'metric' (defined as a subclass of distances) to questions where word "a metric" is used by them simply as "a coefficient", "a measure".So please create tag...
View ArticleUnpinning the accepted answer from the top of the list of answers on CV
See the eponymous thread at Meta.SE. As of Sep 8, answers on SO are sorted differently than before: previously, accepted answers were always shown first, but now, answers are strictly sorted by votes....
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Issues with syntax highlighting (r tag)
I've noticed that there seem to be issues with the syntax highlighting.Take this recent post as an example:Clearly, the question is tagged r. Thus, R syntax highlighting should be applied. However, it...
View ArticleMarking question as "unfocused" without feedback isn't helpful
My question was closed as "unfocused". At the same time it didn't receive any kind of feedback to describe what is unfocused about it.That's while the question has a specific and focused question right...
View ArticleWhere can I ask for tools?
Where can I ask for tools useful for high school level statistics? Currently I am looking for something that can visualize standard deviation and compare two distributions with each other (with some...
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What are articles?
When navigating to a users page, I now see "questions" and "answers" as usual but also "articles". What are these? Are preprints intended to be posted there?A link can be found here and an image is...
View ArticleNew tag: "multi-classification"?
We have a tag classification, which covers the more basic situation of two classes, but also that of multiple classes. The tag wiki is taken from Wikipedia:Statistical classification is the problem of...
View ArticleInternet 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 ArticleIs it appropriate to ask about plotting/graphing/visualizing data here?
I would like to ask for advice about plotting a growth curve model, preferably using SAS, SPSS or Excel. Is that an appropriate question for CrossValidated?
View ArticleDear gods, is there any way to roll back the Ux on the user pages? [closed]
Apparently the new UX design stresses less information on the page, and more scrolling around looking for it. I suspect this is a decision driven by the type of corporate mindset that assumes a Ux that...
View ArticleAnswering a question other than the one that is asked
There are a few topics on this site (unbalanced data, up-weighting, accuracy, F1 score, precision/recall etc) that whenever a user asks a question regarding one of these methods/metrics, a few high...
View ArticleIs there a way to find out how many times I have posted a link to a question
Is there a way to find out how many times I have posted a link to a question? Last month, I wrote a question and self-answer so that I could link to it when a common misconception arose, and I am...
View ArticleUsage permission and citation text for figures on CrossValidated
I would like to use the figure in this post showing the geometry of the correlation coefficients. I am currently writing a book and would like to include this figure. How do I obtain permission to use...
View ArticleWhy are questions about "portfolio optimization" considered offtopic?
I noticed a trend where questions about portfolio weight estimation and optimization tend to either be suggested for transferring over to quant SE, or even closed as off-topic.Here are a few...
View ArticleWhat are some "best practices" for editing to improve a post?
We already have another excellent question on CV.SE setting out editing dos and don'ts, but that mostly focuses on the limitations that apply to editing other people's posts, rather than the substance...
View ArticleWhere can I ask for tools?
Where can I ask for tools useful for high school level statistics? Currently I am looking for something that can visualize standard deviation and compare two distributions with each other (with some...
View ArticleWhere can I ask questions about "operations research"?
Where should questions about operations research be asked? Is cross validated appropriate or are other sites within SE network better suited?I have had a look at...
View ArticleWhy did my post closed due to code programming?
I made few posts where I was not sure about how to use a specific hypotesis testing on R and my post has got closed but I've seen a lot of post regarding about some error output error and they haven't...
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