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Is the voting and reputation system sustainable? How can we improve it or maybe it should be replaced?

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Evidence for man-made global warming hits 'gold standard': how did they do this?

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How can we improve the inconsistent tagging of the questions relating to the recent uproar and associated issues?

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StackExchange fires a moderator, and now in response hundreds of moderators resign: is the increase in resignations statistically significant?

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The frog problem with negative steps

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Are unbiased efficient estimators stochastically dominant over other (median) unbiased estimators?

mathematical-statistics loss-functions unbiased-estimator sufficient-statistics stochastic-ordering asked Jan 9 at 14:58
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Total Up and Down votes in posts table

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How do we characterize probabilities on this infinite sample space

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Viral topics. How to describe and characterize bumps in time series of tag-activity on Meta Stack Exchange

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Why haven't the statements to the Register been retracted?
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Why are the Code of Conduct changes received so negatively, and what can / could have been done to change that?
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Why is the sum of two random variables a convolution?
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For convex problems, does gradient in Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) always point at the global extreme value?
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What are the branches of statistics?
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The “loop” has arrived. What does the community think about it?
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Brain teaser: How to generate 7 integers with equal probability using a biased coin that has a pr(head) = p?
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Who first used/invented p-values?
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What were the main statistical contributions of Ronald Fisher?
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What is so bad about “Nancy”?
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Why is bootstrapping useful?
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The limit of “unit-variance” ridge regression estimator when $\lambda\to\infty$
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What distribution to use to model time before a train arrives?
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Why are the Least-Squares and Maximum-Likelihood methods of regression not equivalent when the errors are not normally distributed?
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If I have a 58% chance of winning a point, what's the chance of me winning a ping pong game to 21, win by 2?
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What is the smallest $\lambda$ that gives a 0 component in lasso?
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Solution to German Tank Problem
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Checking if a coin is fair
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Post for clarifications on the updated pronouns FAQ
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All localized Stack Overflows seem to suffer from a decline to some degree. Why?
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Where does the misconception that Y must be normally distributed come from?
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Where to stand for this winter view in Grindelwald, Switzerland?
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Origin of “5$\sigma$” threshold for accepting evidence in particle physics?
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What are the advantages of linear regression over quantile regression?
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How to plot trends properly
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Can we reject a null hypothesis with confidence intervals produced via sampling rather than the null hypothesis?
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Distribution of the ratio of two i.i.d standard normals
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Distribution of $-\log f_X(X)$
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Why is $r$ used to denote correlation?
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Why is “The Loop” survey asking about race, age, and gender?
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