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- From: andrew@rentec.com (Andrew Mullhaupt)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: sum of eigenvalues of a covariance matrix = trace ?
- Message-ID: <1463@kepler1.rentec.com>
- Date: 10 Jan 93 15:37:44 GMT
- References: <1993Jan9.194845.8567@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Organization: Renaissance Technologies Corp., Setauket, NY.
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- In article <1993Jan9.194845.8567@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> kavuri@lips1.ecn.purdue.edu (Surya N Kavuri ) writes:
- > Is the sum of the eigenvalues of a covariance matrix equal to
- > its trace ?
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- Yes. The sum of the eigenvalues _is_ the trace for any square matrix. I would
- go so far as to define the trace of a nonsquare matrix as the sum of the
- eigenvalues, but I have never run across a need for this item.
-
- Later,
- Andrew Mullhaupt
-