Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0411021406430.24946-100000@gannet.stats>
Date: 2004-11-02T14:08:20Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: Matrix decomposition: orthogonal complement
In-Reply-To: <418790EB.5090904@handels.gu.se>
On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Florin G. Maican wrote:
> How I can compute in R the orthogonal complement of one matrix?
>
> If A (n x m ) matrix of full column rank (n>m), its orthogonal
> complement is denoted by A_ .
>
> A_ is n X (n-m) matrix of full column rank and such that A'A_=0.
It is far from unique, of course.
> I need to compute A_. How I can compute A_ in R?
library(MASS)
?Null
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