[R] How to set the floating point precision beyond e-22?

[Peter Dalgaard]

Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> writes:

> 
> You will have to find a different solution to the problem.  To machine 
> precision, that matrix looks singular.  This usually indicates that it's 
> not the right matrix to try to invert.

It might be a scaling issue though: If you're measuring age in days
and hormone concentrations in Molar, then you'll get that sort of
eigenvalue ratios in a fairly benign way.

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