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Interpretation of R's lm() output The help pages in R assume I know what those numbers mean, but I don't. I'm trying to really intuitively understand every number here. I will just post the output and comment on what I found out. There might (will) be mistakes, as I'll just write what I assume. Mainly I'd like to know what the t-value in the coefficients mean, and why they print the residual standard error.   Call: lm(formula = iris$Sepal.Width ~ iris$Petal.Width)  Residuals:      Min       1Q   Median       3Q      Max  -1.09907 -0.23626 -0.01064  0.23345  1.17532    This is a 5-point-summary of the residuals (their mean is always 0, right?). The numbers can be used (I'm guessing here) to quickly see if there are any big outliers. Also you can already see it here if the residuals are far from normally distributed (they should be normally distributed).  Coefficients:                  Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(&gt;|t|)     (Intercept)       3.30843    0.06210  53.278  &lt; 2e-16 *** iris$Petal.Width -0.20936    0.04374  -4.786 4.07e-06 *** --- Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1    Estimates $\hat{\beta_i}$, computed by least squares regression. Also, the standard error is $\sigma_{\beta_i}$. I'd like to know how this is calculated.  I have no idea where the t-value and the corresponding p-value come from. I know $\hat{\beta}$ should be normal distributed, but how is the t-value calculated?  Residual standard error: 0.407 on 148 degrees of freedom   $\sqrt{ \frac{1}{n-p} \epsilon^T\epsilon }$, I guess. But why do we calculate that, and what does it tell us?  Multiple R-squared: 0.134,  Adjusted R-squared: 0.1282    $ R^2 = \frac{s_\hat{y}^2}{s_y^2} $, which is $ \frac{\sum_{i=1}^n (\hat{y_i}-\bar{y})^2}{\sum_{i=1}^n (y_i-\bar{y})^2} $. The ratio is close to 1 if the points lie on a straight line, and 0 if they are random.  What is the adjusted R-squared?  F-statistic: 22.91 on 1 and 148 DF,  p-value: 4.073e-06    F and p for the whole model, not only for single $\beta_i$s as previous. The F value is $ \frac{s^2_{\hat{y}}}{\sum\epsilon_i} $. The bigger it grows, the more unlikely it is that the $\beta$'s do not have any effect at all. How many numbers are in the Fibonacci sequence below a given threshold? Assuming I'm asked to generate Fibonacci numbers up to N, how many numbers will I generate? I'm looking for the count of Fibonacci numbers up to N, not the Nth number.  So, as an example, if I generate Fibonacci numbers up to 25, I will generate:   1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21 that's 8 numbers   How do I calculate this mathematically for an arbitrary "n"? I have a directory with numerous files. Part of the files have the 755 permissions and the other part have 644 permissions. I'd like to convert the files with 755 permissions to 644. I have tried the following line by running it from the directory itself:  find . -perm 755 -exec chmod 644 {}\;   However as a result, the permission changed only for the directory itself and after changing it back I found out that the files permissions remained unchanged. Do I miss something? What is an "index out of range" exception, and how do I fix it? Can I pass arguments to an alias command? I want to know if I can pass an argument with an alias command.  for example:  alias d="dmesg|grep -iw usb|tail -5"    Now d will print the last 5 lines. If I want to use d to print a different number of lines, I have to make change in the alias command declaration of d again.  Is there any way I can modify the declaration of an alias so that I don't have to retype the declaration to change the number of lines. Like incorporating passing the number of lines as an argument while declaring alias for d? Or is there some other method to solve this? What does accepting an answer actually convey (2015 edition)? Homeomorphism of the real line-Topology When should I use the subjunctive mood? Is it possible to allow usage for an app or program for a specific times on a Mac? I was trying to achieve this using a second account (which is the admin account) and Parental Controls, but it seemed this isn't possible to do so.  I know there are some programs which you can download that help you with this, (Cold Turkey, for example). But, it would be much easier if I could do this using only tools already available on macOS. Why did Itachi poke Sasuke's forehead? From the beginning of the series, even during his last moments, Itachi poked Sasuke's forehead as a way of showing affection and apologizing.  But is that the only reason? Did he perhaps try to transfer some knowledge or memories to Sasuke? Or is it simply unknown? \foreach not behaving in axis environment Am hesitant to ask yet one more embarrassing question, but I can't seem to see the problem with the \foreach in the MWE. It should produce several horizontal lines but only produces the one with the yValue as specified in the \newcommand{\yValue}{0.3}:  Code: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{pgfplots}  \newcommand{\yValue}{0.3}  \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture} \begin{axis} [  ymin=0,  ymax=1,  xmin=0,  xmax=1, ]  \foreach \yValue in {0.00,0.1,...,1.00} {     \draw [red] (axis cs:0,\yValue) -- (axis cs:1,\yValue); }  \end{axis} \end{tikzpicture} \end{document} I have asked more than 100 questions on SO. The problem with asking so many questions is that it's sometimes very hard to navigate to the question I want.  Is there any way to improve the interface further? Windows 8.1 Keeps Turning Off Automatic Updates My OS keeps turning off automatic Windows updates without even logging off or restarting the computer.  Action center icon in the task bar warns me about choosing an option for Windows update as if I haven't chosen countless times already.  It started to get really annoying to keep choosing a Windows update option 5 - 10 times a day.   I really appreciate any help you can provide on this matter.  Things I have tried so far;   I have tried  suggested by . Unfortunately didn't help my case Tried following commands; reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto Update" /v AUOptions /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f  and then sc config wuauserv start= auto as suggested . Googling. Tried few suggestions which didn't help my case. I'm currently writing an import script/addon.  The file format is one vertex per line: x, y, z, u, v With 3 lines for each triangle (no quads).  So far I've got vertex's, edges and faces all importing correctly.  Now I just need to import the UV coordinates for each vertex.  However I'm having trouble trying to find a way to do this.  The best result so far was copying code from the UV operator template, which gave me a UV Map, but it puts the whole model at one point. I entered chmod -R 777 /usr/bin and now sudo is not working.  It says sudo must be setuid root.  Some advice online said to run chown root:root /usr/bin/sudo chmod 4755 /usr/bin/sudo.  On entering chown root:root /usr/bin/sudo it shows an opened in readonly mode error. Who is allowed to invite people to a Minecraft Realm? YA dystopia novel of battle school with unusual military control scheme Some sort of battle school (no, not Ender's Game), where teens are being trained as military commanders.   The control system for their army hinges around some sort of system that requires extremely fine motor control -- being able to "push" around digital representations of military units using a special interface that interprets minute finger movements.  The boy protagonist eventually meets a girl in the battle school, and is astonished to learn that most people do not live as well as he does -- for instance, he gets a fresh jumpsuit outfit every day and disposes of the old one; this is a luxury.  One scene I recall is them kissing for a moment in some sort of underground passageway; the boy protagonist notes the exact length of the kiss, as he has been trained to have heightened time perception.  I don't recall much about other commander characters; I think they have different special abilities, and one other major character might have physical deformities, possibly because of postwar-radiation-related birth defects.  They have been training for an upcoming, prearranged final battle between all the existing national governments; the military units are very possibly robotic or entirely digital in nature, so as to avoid wasting materiel / human life.    They ultimately win the battle, just barely; I think the girl protagonist gives them an edge in the competition by hacking the timing / control system in favor of their team, causing a discrepancy which only the boy protagonist notices due to his heightened perceptions.  It was agreed that the winning government gets dominion over one of the few islands of land left that was not irradiated in some previous war; the protagonists get to live there as a reward for their victory.  I believe the boy protagonist later realizes he's gradually losing his ability to exactly quantify the passage of time.  Published no later than 2004, likely somewhere between 1980-2000, probably sometime in the '90s. How to add context menu item for files in general, in Windows? in order to add context menu for directories and explorer background, one can follow instructions .   To add context menu for specific file extensions, one can follow instructions   but I can't seem to find a way to add context menu items for all files? Explaining what GIS is to 11 year old kid? Well, since it was one of the highest rated , hasn't been asked yet, and I would love to know the answer, I thought I'd ask it.  How do I explain what GIS is for the 11 year old kid? I have recently upgraded Ubuntu 19.10 to latest LTS Ubuntu 20.04. After updating, I get serious artifacts on my screen. Every time I reboot (or log-in), my screen is fuzzy or scrambled (picture attached):     This is temporary. The fuzzy screen goes away when I change the background. But it reappears the moment I reboot or log back in.   I have Intel HD Graphics 520 (Skylake GT2).  The output of lspci -nn |grep -E 'VGA|Display' is:  00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Skylake GT2 [HD Graphics 520] [8086:1916] (rev 07)   Update:   On enabling Wayland in Ubuntu 20.04 and logging in to, these artifacts are however cured.   This is okay for now, but I am not sure about Wayland as I have not yet used it before.   Is there a way to correct the graphic issue with normal Ubuntu startup?