[R] Q: Problems with eigen() vs. svd()
Prof Brian D Ripley
ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Wed May 10 13:44:01 CEST 2000
On Wed, 10 May 2000, ralle wrote:
> The VR-Book "Modern Applied Statistics" (1994) states explicitly that
> eigen() is for
> symmetric matrices.
It does not on any of the pages indexed under `eigen', and on those pages
it "explicitly" discusses simplifications if the matrix is symmetric and
the `symmetric' argument!
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Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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