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- ## Copyright (C) 1995, 1996 Kurt Hornik
- ##
- ## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- ## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
- ## any later version.
- ##
- ## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
- ## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
- ## General Public License for more details.
- ##
- ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- ## along with this file. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
- ## 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
-
- ## usage: commutation_matrix (m [, n])
- ##
- ## Returns the commutation matrix K_{m,n} which is the unique m*n by
- ## m*n matrix such that K_{m,n} * vec (A) = vec (A') for all m by n
- ## matrices A.
- ##
- ## If only one argument m is given, K_{m,m} is returned.
- ##
- ## See Magnus and Neudecker (1988), Matrix differential calculus with
- ## applications in statistics and econometrics.
-
- ## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
- ## Created: 8 May 1995
- ## Adapted-By: jwe
-
- function k = commutation_matrix (m, n)
-
- if (nargin < 1 || nargin > 2)
- usage ("commutation_matrix (m [, n])");
- else
- if (! (is_scalar (m) && m == round (m) && m > 0))
- error ("commutation_matrix: m must be a positive integer");
- endif
- if (nargin == 1)
- n = m;
- elseif (! (is_scalar (n) && n == round (n) && n > 0))
- error ("commutation_matrix: n must be a positive integer");
- endif
- endif
-
- ## It is clearly possible to make this a LOT faster!
- k = zeros (m * n, m * n);
- for i = 1 : m
- for j = 1 : n
- k ((i - 1) * n + j, (j - 1) * m + i) = 1;
- endfor
- endfor
-
- endfunction
-