How can I update my OS Ubuntu Linux 10.10 to 12.04 or 14.04? I had a problem while installing the others and it was the only it accepted!I want to update it using terminal because the update manager can't update it by itself because it doesn't find the version 12.04! Please help!!!
Recently I have installed an older version of Ubuntu on my old machine. Whenever I try to install any software, I get an error saying it couldn't be found:  $ sudo apt-get install vlc Reading package lists... Done                Building dependency tree        Reading state information... Done     E: Couldn't find package vlc
Comparing two logit or probit curves using a single parameter I've conducted a psychological experiment on the same subject, under two different condition. For each condition I've collected the number of correct and wrong answer for each stimulus (number of trials per stimulus = 10; number of stimulus = 15). From the data collected I fitted a psychometric curve (probit or logit curve), and now I want to compare the results.  Consider subject 1: His answers are collected in the following matrices  **COND_1**     correct cnt   Y  N   1   0 10   2   0 10   3   0 10   4   0 10   5   0 10   6   0 10   7   1  9   8   4  6   9   5  5   10  7  3   11  8  2   12  7  3   13 10  0   14 10  0   15 10  0  **COND_2**     correct cnt   Y  N   1   0 10   2   2  8   3   2  8   4   3  7   5   2  8   6   4  6   7   8  2   8  10  0   9   8  2   10 10  0   11  9  1   12 10  0   13 10  0   14 10  0   15 10  0  COND_1.1 &lt;- matrix(c(0, 2, 2, 3, 2, 4, 8, 10, 8, 10, 9, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 8, 8, 7, 8, 6, 2, 0, 2, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0), byrow=F, ncol=2)  COND_1.2 &lt;- matrix(c(0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 4, 5, 7, 8, 7, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 9, 6, 5, 3, 2, 3, 0, 0, 0), byrow=F, ncol=2)  cnt &lt;- seq(from=0, to=1.4, by=0.1)  ddprob.1.1 &lt;- glm(COND_1.1 ~ cnt, family = binomial(link = "probit"))  ddprob.2.1 &lt;- glm(COND_2.1 ~ cnt, family = binomial(link = "probit"))     Observing the plot, you can surely say that performance under condition 2 is better then the performance under condition 1. In fact if you compute some parameters like AUC, p25, p50, p75 (the value of the stimulus at which the number of correct answers are 25%, 50% and 75% each) [threshold parameters], you'll see that:  COND_1      COND_2 AUC    &lt;    AUC p25    &gt;    p25 p50    &gt;    p50 p75    &gt;    p75     Now consider subject 2:  COND_1     correct cnt   Y  N   1   0 10   2   0 10   3   0 10   4   0 10   5   3  7   6   3  7   7   4  6   8   5  5   9   9  1   10  9  1   11 10  0   12 10  0   13 10  0   14 10  0   15 10  0  COND_2     correct cnt   Y  N   1   0 10   2   1  9   3   0 10   4   4  6   5   2  8   6   6  4   7   4  6   8   7  3   9   4  6   10  7  3   11  7  3   12 10  0   13  9  1   14 10  0   15 10  0   COND_1.2 &lt;- matrix(c(0, 0, 0, 0, 3, 3, 4, 5, 9, 9, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 7, 7, 6, 5, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0), byrow=F, ncol=2) COND_2.2 &lt;- matrix(c(0, 1, 0, 4, 2, 6, 4, 7, 4, 7, 7, 10, 9, 10, 10, 10, 9, 10, 6, 8, 4, 6, 3, 6, 3, 3, 0, 1, 0, 0), byrow=F, ncol=2) cnt &lt;- seq(from=0, to=1.4, by=0.1)  ddprob.1.1 &lt;- glm(COND_1.2 ~ cnt, family = binomial(link = "probit")) ddprob.2.1 &lt;- glm(COND_2.2 ~ cnt, family = binomial(link = "probit"))   The plotted curves are shown in the image below.    Can you say what performance is better? Under condition 1 or under condition 2? Extrapolating AUC, p25, p50, p75, you have:  COND_1      COND_2 AUC     &gt;   AUC p25     &gt;   p25 p50     =   p50 p75     &lt;   p75   So my question is: Is there a method to say that a generic curve (logit, probit or whatelse) is HIGHER then another? Is there a method to compare (a single number of "performance") that describe the differences of the two curves? My example shows that AUC, p25, p50, p75 are not good parameters. I'd like to compute a single numeric parameter for each curves, to make a simple t-paired test, extrapolated from the distribution seen. Uncountable chain of subsets of $\mathbb N$ Galois group of irreducible cubic equation Why do we use residuals to test the assumptions on errors in regression? Suppose that we have a model $Y_i = \beta_0 + \beta_1X_{i1} + \beta_2X_{i2} + \dots + \beta_kX_{ik} + \epsilon_i$.  Regression has a number of assumptions, such as that the errors $\epsilon_i$ should be normally distributed with mean zero and constant variance. I have been taught to check these assumptions using a normal QQ plot to test for normality of the residuals $e_i = Y_i - \hat{Y}_i$ and a residuals vs. fitted plot to check that the residuals vary around zero with constant variance.  However, these tests are all on the residuals, not the errors.  From what I understand, the errors are defined as the deviation of each observation from their 'true' mean value. So, we can write $\epsilon_i = Y_i - \mathbb{E}[Y_i]$. These errors cannot be observed by us. *  My question is this: how good of a job do the residuals do in mimicking the errors?   If the assumptions appear to be satisfied on the residuals, does this mean they are satisfied on the errors too? Are there other (better) ways to test the assumptions, like fitting the model to a testing dataset and getting the residuals from there?    * Furthermore, does this not require that the model is specified correctly? That is, that the response really does have a relationship with the predictors $X_1, X_2,$ etc. in the way specified by the model.  If we are missing some predictors (say, $X_{k+1}\ \text{to}\ X_p$), then the expectation $\mathbb{E}[Y_i] = \beta_0 + \beta_1X_{i1} + \beta_2X_{i2} + \dots + \beta_kX_{ik}$ would not even be the true mean, and further analysis on an incorrect model seems pointless.  How do we check whether the model is a correct one? How to type special/accented letters in LaTeX? How to type these special letters from European languages in latex? ä, é, and L'? I regularly find sites that copy content from elsewhere (mailing lists, etc) while not providing any added value. Quite to the contrary, they are pretty heaped with ads.  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A syntax error question is a bad example for "probably invested a significant amount of work", I know, but again, I'm just curious what happened and want to know, why one does loose the reputation points ? Commas that are sentence flow-stoppers ... Can I leave them out? Why must a singularity form inside a black hole? How do you prove that these four definitions of the operator norm are equivalent? $$\begin{align*} \lVert A\rVert_{\mathrm{op}} &amp;= \inf\{ c\;\colon\; \lVert Av\rVert\leq c\lVert v\rVert \text{ for all }v\in V\}\\ &amp;=\sup\{ \lVert Av\rVert\;\colon\; v\in V\text{ with }\lVert v\rVert\leq 1\}\\ &amp;=\sup\{\lVert Av\rVert\;\colon\; v\in V\text{ with }\lVert v\rVert = 1 \}\\ &amp;=\sup\left\{ \frac{\lVert Av\rVert}{\lVert v\rVert}\;\colon\; v\in V\text{ with }v\neq 0\right\}. \end{align*}$$ Packages: graphics vs graphicx Different websites suggest using one of those two packages.  \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{graphics}   What are differences between them? Which is better? My mother is a quite famous researcher (she has a PhD) on the field I want to do a PhD in. She works on the industry (not academia). I helped her on successful projects. She knows more about my work than my professors since we have worked much longer together.  Is it a good idea to ask for a recommendation letter from her? Since our personalities are very similar she can point out the high probability that I will be successful like her? "Is far from..." - How do I connote the simile, without the literal connotation? At the start of the movie it says:      "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...."   Does this mean that the entire Star Wars saga takes place in a single galaxy? To my understanding a galaxy isn't very big compared to the universe itself. Star Wars has many different sentient races, and the way they are presented suggests that most planets are host to only one of them (some exceptions like naboo). This strongly leads me to believe there should actually be more galaxies in the Star Wars universe (hehe).   Another thing, I think it's safe to assume that even if the entire saga takes place in one single galaxy, their researchers can observe other galaxies (I think we started doing that in the 1600s, and they are a lot more technologically advanced than we were back then). When Obi-wan is looking for Kamino (the rain planet with the cloners) the librarian says something like "If it's not in our records, it doesn't exist", so she must be convinced that the entire universe has been explored.    If the entire universe has been documented, why wouldn't they go to those other galaxies? The technology seems to be advanced enough to hop to another galaxy. Is there any canon material that suggest that traveling between galaxies is done? 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The elements of $R/I$ are of the form $a+I$ and $b+I$, $\forall a,b\in R$.   Now $$(a+I).(b+I)=(a+i_{1}).(b+i_{2}),\forall (i_{1},i_{2})\in I \times I$$  $$(a+i_{1}).(b+i_{2})=ab+a.i_{2}+b.i_{1}+i_{1}i_{2}=ab+I$$  We know that $a.i_{2}+b.i_{1}+i_{1}i_{2}\in I$.   If $(a+I).(b+I)=ab+I$, then taking suitable $(i_{1},i_{2})\in I\times I$, we should be able to prove $(a+i_{1}).(b+i_{2})=ab+i_{3},\forall i_{3}\in I$. However, can every element in $I$ be generated by taking suitable $i_{1},i_{2}\in I$? And if not, is that the reason why $(a+I).(b+I)$ has to be defined as equal to $ab+I$ in violation of the distributive property of ring elements? This has confused me for a long time.   EDIT: I figured addition does not have to be defined as such because $(a+i_{1})+(b+i_{2})=a+b+i_{1}+i_{2}$, where $i_{1}+i_{2}\in I$. In fact, every element $i\in I$ can be constructed by taking $i_{1}=0$ and $i_{2}=i$. Hence, $(a+I) + (b+I)=a+b+I$ naturally. 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