You can also start with a random matrix A and then construct (A +
A.transpose())/2, which would be symmetric. That might vary the
distribution of the coefficients, though.
Cheers
Javier
On Jul 15, 7:13 am, William Stein wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 11:09 PM,
>
> pierre.du...@gmail.com wrote
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 11:09 PM,
pierre.du...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> I'd like to generate symmetric random matrices whose entries may be
> various distributions. Can I use random_matrix? In help
> (random_matrix), I haven't found any documentation on the *args and
> **kwds variables.
Unfortunate