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Re: st: Problem with Cholesky matrix function?


From   Kaleb Michaud <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Problem with Cholesky matrix function?
Date   Mon, 24 Nov 2003 09:30:31 -0800

But now, since I can't use -drawnorm- to create random Normal distributed vectors with S covariance matrix (listed below), is there an alternative?

May, thanks for your help!

Kaleb...

At 08:59 AM 11/24/2003 -0600, you wrote:

> symmetric S[10,10]
>        r1   r2   r3   r4   r5   r6   r7   r8   r9  r10
>   c1    1
>   c2    2    2
>   c3    3    3    3
>   c4    4    4    4    4
>   c5    5    5    5    5    5
>   c6    6    6    6    6    6    6
>   c7    7    7    7    7    7    7    7
>   c8    8    8    8    8    8    8    8    8
>   c9    9    9    9    9    9    9    9    9    9
> c10   10   10   10   10   10   10   10   10   10   10
matrix S=[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10\2,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10\3,3,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10\ /*
  */4,4,4,4,5,6,7,8,9,10\5,5,5,5,5,6,7,8,9,10\6,6,6,6,6,6,7,8,9,10\ /*
  */ 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,8,9,10\8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,9,10\9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,10\ /*
   */10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10]
mat list S
mat symeigen X v = S
mat list v


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