Re: [R] SVD of a variance matrix

ssage- From: Giovanni Petris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 8:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] SVD of a variance matrix Hi Ravi, Thank you for your useful reply. Does the result also hold for variance-covariance matrice

Re: [R] SVD of a variance matrix

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Re: [R] SVD of a variance matrix

etris'; r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] SVD of a variance matrix Yes. SVD of any symmetric (which is, of course, also square) matrix will always have U = V. Also, SVD is the same as spectral decomposition, and the columns of U and V are the eigenvectors, but the singular values will be th

Re: [R] SVD of a variance matrix

Yes. SVD of any symmetric (which is, of course, also square) matrix will always have U = V. Also, SVD is the same as spectral decomposition, and the columns of U and V are the eigenvectors, but the singular values will be the absolute value of eigenvalues. Ravi.