Hi there, Given a positive definite symmetric matrix, I can use chol(x) to obtain U where U is upper triangular and x=U'U. For example,
x=matrix(c(5,1,2,1,3,1,2,1,4),3,3) U=chol(x) U # [,1] [,2] [,3] #[1,] 2.236068 0.4472136 0.8944272 #[2,] 0.000000 1.6733201 0.3585686 #[3,] 0.000000 0.0000000 1.7525492 t(U)%*%U # this is exactly x Does anyone know how to obtain L such that L is lower triangular and x=L'L? Thank you. Alex ______________________________________________ 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.
