>>>>> peter dalgaard
>>>>> on Tue, 18 Jun 2019 11:45:39 +0200 writes:
> Sounds like this is isomorphic to reachability in graph
> theory. I wonder if
> (sum_1^n M^i) > 0
> would suffice?
neat! (and I guess correct)
> -pd
Which reminds me that in the relatively distant past as
maintainer of the 'expm' package I had introduced "%^%" (to
compute matrix *integer* powers) with this first part of help() :
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Matrix Power
Description:
Compute the k-th power of a matrix. Whereas ‘x^k’ computes
_element wise_ powers, ‘x %^% k’ corresponds to k - 1 matrix
multiplications, ‘x %*% x %*% ... %*% x’.
Usage:
x %^% k
Arguments:
x: a square matrix.
k: an integer, k >= 0.
Details:
Argument k is coerced to integer using as.integer.
The algorithm uses O(log2(k)) matrix multiplications.
Value:
A matrix of the same dimension as ‘x’.
Note:
If you think you need ‘x^k’ for k < 0, then consider instead
‘solve(x %^% (-k))’.
........
........
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
and I had thought / wondered to myself if this should not be
brought into base R [or then at least 'Matrix' which is
installed with R (almost surely)] but I think never got around
to propose that.
Opinions?
>> On 18 Jun 2019, at 02:08 , Duncan Murdoch
>> <murdoch.dun...@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.dun...@gmail.com
>>> <mailto:murdoch.dun...@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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