[R] Add transitivity to a matrix?

[peter dalgaard]

Sounds like this is isomorphic to reachability in graph theory. I wonder if 

(sum_1^n M^i) > 0

would suffice?

-pd



> On 18 Jun 2019, at 02:08 , Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan using gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 17/06/2019 7:34 p.m., Bert Gunter wrote:
>> Depends on what you mean by "simple" of course, but suppose that:
>> M[i,j] & M[j,k] & M[k,n] are TRUE and M[i,k] and M[i,n] are FALSE.
>> Then the procedure would see that M[i,k] needs to change to TRUE, but not that M[i,n] needs to also become TRUE *after* M[i,k] changes.  This seems to imply that an iterative solution is necessary.
> 
> Right, that's a good point.
> 
> Duncan Murdoch
> 
>> One such procedure, via repeated matrix multiplication to check for and impose transitivity, appears to be suggested by this discussion:
>> https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/228898/how-to-check-whether-a-relation-is-transitive-from-the-matrix-representation
>> Cheers,
>> Bert
>> On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 10:29 AM Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan using gmail.com <mailto:murdoch.duncan using gmail.com>> wrote:
>>    On 17/06/2019 1:19 p.m., Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>>     > Suppose I have a square logical matrix M which I'm thinking of as a
>>     > relation between the row/column numbers.
>>     >
>>     > I can make it into a symmetric relation (i.e. M[i,j] being TRUE
>>    implies
>>     > M[j,i] is TRUE) by the calculation
>>     >
>>     > M <- M | t(M)
>>     >
>>     > Is there a simple way to ensure transitivity, i.e. M[i,j] &
>>    M[j,k] both
>>     > being TRUE implies M[i,k] is TRUE?
>>     >
>>     > The operation should only change FALSE or NA values to TRUE
>>    values; TRUE
>>     > values should never be changed.
>>    I also want the changes to be minimal; changing everything to TRUE
>>    would
>>    satisfy transitivity, but isn't useful to me.
>>    Duncan Murdoch
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