I have 6 out of 167 cases of cancer in the dependent variable. I would evaluate if three independent variables predicted the cancer. Are 6 cases enough? Is there a rule to determine this? Is there difference if the indipendent variables is nominal or numeric?
I want to make a logistic model from my survey data. It is a small survey of four residential colonies in which only 154 respondents were interviewed. My dependent variable is "satisfactory transition to work". I found that, of the 154 respondents, 73 said that they have satisfactorily transitioned to work, while the rest did not. So the dependent variable is binary in nature and I decided to use logistic regression. I have seven independent variables (three continuous and four nominal). One guideline suggest that there should be 10 cases for each predictor / independent variable (Agresti, 2007). Based on this guideline I feel that it is OK to run logistic regression.    Am I right? If not please let me know how to decide the number of independent variables?
So my friend has a USB flash drive that isn't working. I don't know a whole lot about "recovery" software so I figured I'd ask you guys.  What steps can I try (I have access to a Linux machine as well) to see....if I can get ANYTHING off the flash drive?  I've google'd around, but most of the stuff seems for windows. Let $f \in C [a,b]$ such that $\forall x\exists y$ such that $|f(y)| \leq \frac{1}{2}|f(x)|$. Prove that $\exists c\in [a,b]$ such that $f(c) = 0$. Why are old initrd files of uninstalled kernels filling up /boot partition? How to remove specific elements in a numpy array There are a number of services that will scan a website for vulnerabilities and allow the display of a trustmark image if the site passes their tests.  This allegedly increases the level of trust a potential client feel toward the website and therefore makes them more likely to complete a purchase.    McAfee claims it has studies which show significant increases in sales. Should I take their word for it?  What sort of increase should I really expect, if any?  Are these types of services worth the prices they charge? How to end paragraph text in an inverted pyramid shape? In many old books, the final paragraphs of chapters end in an inverted pyramid shape, like this:    I think this is beautiful, so I would like to imitate this for my book. I've found the code for a triangle in this post   \documentclass{article} \usepackage{microtype,shapepar}  \def\triangleupshape{% {0}% {0}b{0}\\% {8.66}t{-5}{10}\\% {17.32}t{-10}{20}\\% {17.32}e{0}% }      \begin{document} \shapepar{\triangleupshape}A ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer    adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat. Ut wisi enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerci tation ullamcorper suscipit lobortis nisl ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis autem vel eum iriure dolor in hendrerit in vulputate velit esse molestie consequat, vel illum dolore eu feugiat nulla facilisis at vero eros et accumsan et iusto odio dignissim qui blandit praesent luptatum zzril delenit augue duis dolore te feugait nulla facilisi. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat. \par \end{document}   Which results in this:    But I'd like it to be inverted and the first part of the paragraph need to be full line width. Only the last few lines should end in an inverted pyramid like in the example above.  Is there a way to do this? Thanks in advance for your help. Create instance of generic type in Java? Is it possible to create an instance of a generic type in Java? I'm thinking based on what I've seen that the answer is no (due to type erasure), but I'd be interested if anyone can see something I'm missing:  class SomeContainer&lt;E&gt; {     E createContents()     {         return what???     } }   EDIT: It turns out that  could be used to resolve my issue, but it requires a lot of reflection-based code, as some of the answers below have indicated.  I'll leave this open for a little while to see if anyone comes up with anything dramatically different than Ian Robertson's . I've got a utility that outputs a list of files required by a game.  How can I run that utility within a C program and grab its output so I can act on it within the same program? UPDATE: Good call on the lack of information.  The utility spits out a series of strings, and this is supposed to be portable across Mac/Windows/Linux.  Please note, I'm looking for a programmatic way to execute the utility and retain its output (which goes to stdout). If $\sum_{n_0}^{\infty} a_n$ diverges prove that $\sum_{n_0}^{\infty} \frac{a_n}{a_1+a_2+...+a_n} = +\infty $ I've tried to use the limit test: $\lim_{n \rightarrow \infty} \frac{a_n}{b_n} = C$ in the series of $a_n$ and $\frac{a_n}{a_1+a_2+...+a_n}$ but it was inconclusive.  The question does not especify the sign of $a_n$ but proving it for positives would already help.  I think the sign can change as long as the partial sums never get to be zero. Like if the series has only negative numbers the result seems to stil hold. I came across this :     Unbelievable as it may seem, many individuals that fought in the   American Revolution were still alive in 1839, the year the world was introduced to photography. (choose the error - the 'answer' is in bold)   It noted that the reason "that fought" is wrong is that 'The relative pronoun “that” may not be used to refer to people (“individuals”) and should be replaced with the relative pronoun “who.”'   I had thought that the word "that" could refer to both people and objects (while which was reserved for objects and who reserved for people). Am I wrong? Remember my "sort by" setting when browsing favorite site feeds Opening the menu and selecting an item from the "Favorite Sites" menu allows us to see a feed for a specific site. In the top right corner of this page is a drop-down which allows us to select the "sort order" for the posts. The default is "Active" with other options like "Newest", "Hot", etc.  The problem is that when I select "Newest" or any other option. This preference is not remembered when I change between a different "Favorite Site".  So I am requesting that the selection is persisted when changing between site feeds. I have no preference whether this is implemented per site (to allow a different default for each site) or just one single preferred default that works on all sites (last option selected). I just want it to remember that I have selected "Newest" when I am flicking though the sites. What is the best way (performance wise) to paginate results in SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008, 2012 if you also want to get the total number of results (before paginating)? PTR record won`t update Set Windows process (or user) memory limit Is there any way to set a system wide memory limit a process can use in Windows XP? I have a couple of unstable apps which do work ok for most of the time but can hit a bug which results in eating whole memory in a matter of seconds (or at least I suppose that's it). This results in a hard reset as Windows becomes totally unresponsive and I lose my work.  I would like to be able to do something like the /etc/limits on Linux - setting M90, for instance (to set 90% max memory for a single user to allocate). So the system gets the remaining 10% no matter what. In his first lesson (transcripted in "Tips on Physics"), Feynman talks about math for physicists in a very cool and practical way. And at the end of the section he talks something like "so the first thing to do is to learn to learn derivative, integral and algebra" (I don't know how much precise I'm being because I've read it in Portuguese). I would to know if there is some book that deals with math as Feynman did it in this lesson (respecting formalities, but teaching how to use the practical rules)? Also, someone have any recommendations for algebra book (college level)? Find the sum of angles without trigonometry? Extended Euclidean Algorithm: backward vs. forward I'm confused about how to do the extended algorithm. For example, here's the gcd part gcd(8000,7001)  $$\begin{align}8000 &amp;= 7001\cdot1 + 999\\ 7001&amp;=999\cdot 7+8\\ 999&amp;=8\cdot 124+7\\ 8&amp;=7\cdot 1+1\\ 7&amp;=1\cdot 7+0\\ \gcd(8000,7001)&amp;=1\end{align}$$    Now, the extended algorithm  $$\begin{align}1 &amp;= 8 - 1\cdot7\\ &amp;= 8 - 1\cdot(999 - 8\cdot124)\\ &amp;= -1\cdot999 + 8\cdot125\end{align}$$  How do you get this 8*125 from the previous line? How to restore default group/user ownership of all files under /var? I accidentally changed /var owner/group to my username and then changed it back to root, but not all the /var folders' owners are root, so is there anyway to change back owner/group of files/folders to default state?  Or at least those files/folders that are created by packages? Which rational numbers can be written as the sum of two rational squares?  That is, for which rational numbers $a$, are there rational numbers $x$ and $y$ such that $a = x^2 + y^2$.  It is a famous theorem that if an integer can be written as the sum of two rational squares then it can be written as the sum of two integral squares, and then the solution is the famous one by Fermat, but I didn't find anything about the general case. This is a follow up question to . My reference database contains some DOI codes, but mainly normal URLs and some ISBN/ISSN codes. What I would like to achieve is extending the code from Herbert and hyperlink the title of the entry with the following priority: 1. DOI, 2. URL, 3. ISBN/ISSN. What I mean is, if both DOI and URL is available, use DOI. If URL and ISBN is available use URL. If only ISBN is available use that.  There are two further isses:    The URL field might contain several URLs, which are just seperated by a white space. In that case just the first URL should be used.  Herbert's code just extends to articles. I would like to extend this to all entry types.   The code from Herbert to Hyperlink the Title with DOIs is:   \newbibmacro{string+doi}[1]{%   \iffieldundef{doi}{#1}{\href{http://dx.doi.org/\thefield{doi}}{#1}}} \DeclareFieldFormat{title}{\usebibmacro{string+doi}{\mkbibemph{#1}}} \DeclareFieldFormat[article]{title}{\usebibmacro{string+doi}{\mkbibquote{#1}}}   This far surpasses my skill, so it would be great if someone could give me some guidance how to achieve that.