Dear R-list members, Just wondering if there is any way to compute the duplication matrix in R. I tried to search for it but only found functions "xpnd" and "vech".
Basically for a symmetric n by n matrix A, the duplication matrix D_n is a matrix of dimension n^2 by n(n+1)/2 such that D_n vech(A)= c(A), where c(A) just vectorizes A. The duplication matrix is defined on page 49 of the book "Matrix differential calculus with applications in statistics and econometrics" by Magnus and Neudecker (1988 ) Thanks a lot! --------------------------------- ÑÅ»¢Ãâ·ÑÓÊÏä-3.5GÈÝÁ¿£¬20M¸½¼þ [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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