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How do I get my content on Stack Exchange licensed correctly or else removed?

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

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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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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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FAQ/Handbook: communication channels used by Stack Overflow/Stack Exchange

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The mobile version of the website does not show the license along with the contributions

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Why does something round roll down faster than something square?

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The frog problem with negative steps

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Proof/derivation for false discovery rate in Benjamini-Hochberg procedure

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Why haven't the statements to the Register been retracted?
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Is there a 1 in 20 or 1 in 400 chance of guessing the outcome of a d20 roll before it happens?
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Update: an agreement with Monica Cellio
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A fair die is rolled 1,000 times. What is the probability of rolling the same number 5 times in a row?
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Why were 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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Why does the US death rate not "match" life expectancy
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How exactly is the "effectiveness" in the Moderna and Pfizer vaccine trials estimated?
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Speed in m/s is normally distributed, but same data expressed as "Time for 10 meters" is not
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Which statistical model is being used in the Pfizer study design for vaccine efficacy?
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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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I am sorry. Please, accept my apology
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Is the COVID-19 pandemic curve a Gaussian curve?
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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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A chart of daily cases of COVID-19 in a Russian region looks suspiciously level to me - is this so from the statistics viewpoint?
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Fitting SIR model with 2019-nCoV data doesn't conververge
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What is so bad about "Nancy"?
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Is this p-hacking?
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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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How do I get my content on Stack Exchange licensed correctly or else removed?
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What is the smallest $\lambda$ that gives a 0 component in lasso?
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What exactly does the term "inverse probability" mean?
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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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What were the main statistical contributions of Ronald Fisher?
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Overfitting, but why is the training deviance dropping?
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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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Who first used/invented p-values?
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Checking if a coin is fair based on how often a subsequence occurs
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