Tag *random* very non-specific
The tag random (without wiki) seems to be used for a lot of different things, like random factors, random variables, ... Probably a lot should be retagged, and the rest changed (by a synonym) to tag...
View ArticleWhy does the “programming” closure message not mention Stack Overflow?
When we close questions that appear to be about programming, a message appears that links to Open Data or to a CV Meta post about software support.Not mentioning Stack Overflow seems like a gigantic...
View ArticleIncreasing reputation needed for creating tags?
At present, the reputation threshold for creating new tags is at 300, making this accessible for relatively new and inexperienced users. A lot of new tags created now (2022) is unnecessary, or simply...
View ArticleWhat to do about obsolete, or out-of-date questions, specifically this one...
Some questions have answers which are obsolete, or outdated. One prominent example is How to choose the number of hidden layers and nodes in a feedforward neural network?This question has an answer...
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 ArticleUsing personal data for reproducible examples
Recently someone posted a few questions that contain an extract of what appears to health-related data: here, here and all their questions so far actually.It's only 10 data points but it seems to come...
View ArticleMy upvoting policy
Some time ago I decided to employ a policy for upvoting the questions:When I answer the question, it means that it was worth answering, so I automatically upvote it. There are some minor exceptions...
View ArticleHow to ask a good [references] question?
It's very common for users to want to find references about a specific topic in machine learning, statistics, or probability. Often, these questions start from a place where the user doesn't know what...
View ArticleSystem is systematically changing URLs in many of my posts
Many of my posts which have links to blog articles such as https://fharrell.com/post/po are having the URLs systematically changed to http://www.fharrell.com/p/blog-page.html which is not even a valid...
View ArticleHow best to use the review queue?
For the past couple of months I've had access to the review queue and haven't really got to grips with it yet. I find the design rather unintuitive and clunky - when looking at a post in the review...
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 ArticleIncreasing reputation needed for creating tags?
At present, the reputation threshold for creating new tags is at 300, making this accessible for relatively new and inexperienced users. A lot of new tags created now (2022) are unnecessary, or simply...
View ArticleWhen should an answer be given as opposed to just giving a hint
It's my impression that on this site (and https://math.stackexchange.com/) that many times questions aren't answered but just hints in the comments are given. (This is different on...
View Article(Why) does CV post comments under my name and without notifying me?
While I was interacting with this question, I noticed that the author incorporated the comments to ask an equivalent question (instead of editing the original one).Since I think that this constituted a...
View ArticleHow can I find questions where I and another user interacted?
I would like to find a post showing an interaction between me and another user, probably under the form of me (or him) asking a question, and he (or me) providing an answer, which would be the easy...
View Articledelete post please
I would like that my post Consecutive steps to get the posterior of parameters : 1) determine fiducials, 2) Fisher information's formalism, 3) Validation with MCMC estimation to be deleted please....
View ArticleIs this platform loosing significance
In a discussion with one of an ex user of the platform, I noticed how some policies of the platform are too harsh, and hence users do not have a pleasant experience, especially for those who are new to...
View ArticleIs this platform losing significance?
In a discussion with an ex-user of the platform, I noticed how some policies of the platform are too harsh, and hence users do not have a pleasant experience, especially for those who are new to...
View ArticleShould we reduce the vote threshold for closing questions?
Currently, it takes 5 close votes from users with the vote-to-close privilege ($\ge3000$ reputation), or 1 vote from a moderator, to close a question. If the question is being closed as a duplicate of...
View ArticleHow best to use the review queue?
For the past couple of months I've had access to the review queue and haven't really got to grips with it yet. I find the design rather unintuitive and clunky - when looking at a post in the review...
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