Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That is not a symmetric matrix so the eigenvalues are potentially complex > and are sorted by modulus. There's an ambiguity in the description for > that case.
Ah-ha! Thanks, Brian. I wonder if we should switch to sorting by absolute value in the real case too, for consistency, and maybe also to avoid silly mistakes caused by people expecting that the first/last eigenvalues are the important ones. -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
