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Inversion on a non square matrix using PDL (or similar?)

by Angharad (Pilgrim)
on Jul 28, 2005 at 16:34 UTC ( [id://479031]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

Angharad has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm having a little play with PDL at the moment. Neat but I was wondering if anyone knew of a way in which you can invert a matrix that isnt square.
There is a function in MatLab called pinv which will invert a rectangular matrix. Perhaps there is something similar offered in PDL?
Or, if not, does anyone know of another way to implement this using Perl?

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Re: Inversion on a non square matrix using PDL (or similar?)
by gjb (Vicar) on Jul 28, 2005 at 16:56 UTC

    You're looking for the Moore-Penrose pseudoinverse. It is defined on MathWorld and is easy to implement for a matrix A as (A^t A)^{-1} A^t where A^t is A transposed, A^t A is a square matrix, (A^t A)^{-1} being its inverse (if it exists).

    Hope this helps, -gjb-

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