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Re: Left Matrix Division [message #77683]

Mon, 19 September 2011 03:18

d.poreh
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Registered: October 2007

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On Sep 19, 12:54 am, mankoff <mank...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Nevermind, I found the LA_LEAST_SQUARES function. It turns out that a
> \b in MATLAB does a lot of different things depending on the shape of
> a.
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> -k.
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> On Sep 18, 6:53 pm, mankoff <mank...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> I'm trying to do some matrix division, something which in MATLAB is
>> done
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>> r = a\b
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>> where A is m row x n column and B is an n column matrix and the result
>> is and m x 1 column matrix.
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>> I think this is called left matrix division and is equal to "b^(-1)
>> times a", but am having trouble inverting B as it is a column vector.
>> I have been looking into IMSL_INV as I have not found any other IDL
>> functions that claim to invert a matrix or do matrix division.
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>> Any help will be much appreciated.
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>> Thanks,
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>> -k.

Cone on!!! you know that for inverting, you need DET(A) NE O

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