On Apr 8, 2010, at 1:45 AM, arindam fadikar wrote:

Dear users,

How to get a symmetric square root of a positive definite matrix? I have tried using spectral decomposition, but some eigen values come out to be complex. Is there any function in R that can give the symmetric square root
of a pd matrix?


require(expm)
?sqrtm


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Arindam Fadikar
M.Stat
Indian Statistical Institute.
New Delhi, India

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