Hi, Isn't the Cholesky decomposition of A=L (L)^T where T stands for "transpose" and L is the Cholesky factor of A.
You say you have the Cholesky decomposition, isn't it L (above)? A<-L%*%t(L) det(A) solve(A) would be your answer. Hope this helps Ozgur -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Determinant-and-inverse-using-cholsky-parameter-tp4632769p4632808.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.