Hi Peter, Gabor

On Feb 7, 2005, at 04:42 pm, Peter Dalgaard wrote:

Gabor Grothendieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Robin Hankin <r.hankin <at> soc.soton.ac.uk> writes:

: I want a diagnostic that detects whether a row is a multiple of
: the first row or not.

..and in that case it might be easier just to calculate the dot
product with the orthogonal of mat[1,]:

z <- jj[1,]
jj %*% c(z[1], -z[2])
      [,1]
 [1,]    0
 [2,]    0
 [3,]    1
 [4,]    1
 [5,]    1
 [6,]    1
 [7,]    1
 [8,]    0
 [9,]    1
[10,]    1

(Notice that the value "1" just comes from Robin being singularly bad
at selecting "arbitrary" rows that are not proportional to the first
one!)


Heh. I spent some considerable time pondering this and realized that if one
views jj as a bunch of two-by two matrices jj[c(a,b),] then in my application,
many of these matrices are either singular or unimodular (that is, a matrix with a
determinant of one).


Your insight above is is VERY VERY helpful

Thank you.


-- Robin Hankin Uncertainty Analyst Southampton Oceanography Centre European Way, Southampton SO14 3ZH, UK tel 023-8059-7743

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