Unclear questions according to the Community Bot
I arrived at this question. When I arrived, it had been posted one minute ago, had three views, one upvote, and a single comment, posted by the Community Bot 57 seconds ago (so well within a minute...
View ArticleShould mentioning "potential" ethical issues with data analysis/display be...
On another StackExchange site (https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/270097/remove-outliers-in-boxwhiskerchart?noredirect=1#comment674078_270097), I've run into resistance because of my...
View ArticleCurrent tag synonym candidates
Please post your tag synonym suggestions as new answers in this thread, one answer per suggestion. Upvote answers where you believe that the suggested tags should be made synonyms, and downvote answers...
View ArticleShowing a function source code and asking what it does
I am a statistics newbie and I have recently ported a function or subroutine in fortran into python. But I have no idea what it does. Is it on topic to ask such questions here ? I am looking to find...
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AWS will be sponsoring Cross Validated
We're thrilled to announce that AWS will be sponsoring Cross Validated starting on July 18 through December 31. We wanted to give you a heads-up and walk you through what that means.How and where will...
View ArticleProfusion of threads on imbalanced data - can we merge/deem canonical any?
We appear to have a number of overlapping threads on imbalanced data. Here are just a few of the more highly-upvoted ones:Are unbalanced datasets problematic, and (how) does oversampling (purport to)...
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...
View ArticleSuggestion: delete [comparison] tag
The comparison tag has 121 questions, almost half of which have zero upvotes and only one of which has a score >10. There is no tag wiki or usage guidance.A substantial proportion of statistical...
View ArticleWhy there are no tags for score-test and nuisance parameter or wikipedia?
Why not add tags for Rao's score-test and nuisance-parameter?Some questions are about wikipedia.org definitions. Why not introduce a wikipedia.org tag?
View ArticleI disagree with this closure as a software question (not a question I posted)
As I typed the last few letters of my answer to this question, it got closed. I understand the argument for closing it, but I had a good statistical answer a period away from submission, and the...
View Articlemath.SE is to MathOverflow as stats.SE is to ________
My (perhaps incorrect) impression is that few stats.SE regular users specialize in modern research-level statistics and that the website is most appropriate for undergraduate or masters level content,...
View ArticleHow to adapt this Philosophy.SE question to fit CV on-topic standards?
I asked this question on Philosophy Stack Exchange: Epistemic value of multiple eyewitness accounts: single event vs. multiple events given a fixed number of eyewitnesses?Intuitively speaking, multiple...
View ArticleTop $k$ List of Reasons to Close a Question Immediately
This is intended to be a "humorous and friendly thread on how to ask a horrible question" (amoeba) which can help new users understand how to write good questions.We hope you will contribute one...
View ArticleIs the tag `statistical-confidence` portmanteau of `confidence-interval` and...
I came across a question tagged statistical-confidence: Find the confidence in an accuracy measurement. I interpreted it as a question about statistical-significance, so I made an edit.Then I looked at...
View ArticleA published article uses statiscal analyses that don't seem appropriate to...
First, I considered posting this on the academia SE, but since this is more a question of statistical validity, I thought it more appropriate to post here. If there are similar questions/answers here...
View ArticleA published article uses statistical analyses that don't seem appropriate to...
First, I considered posting this on the academia SE, but since this is more a question of statistical validity, I thought it more appropriate to post here. If there are similar questions/answers here...
View ArticleWhy is my CV question here duplicated on 'Solve Forum'?
I was doing an image search for other examples of something relating to a question I had already asked on Cross Validated, and came across this word-for-word...
View ArticleTwo 50-point bounties at once?
I found a question in need of an answer, so I went to post a bounty of 50. The lowest option available was 100. Is this because I have another 50-point bounty happening simultaneously?
View ArticleA Proposal for a Change to the Bounty Rules
I'd like to propose a modification to the rules for awarding a bounty on Cross Validated. A couple of times, including this recent one, I have provided a legitimate answer to a question, been the only...
View ArticleWhy are these blog recommendations questions considered off-topic?
There are a few Mathematical Statistics/Statistical Learning Theory blogs I enjoy reading, and wanted to ask on the main site for recommendations of similar theory-focused Statistics/ML blogs, as I...
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