Matrix pivot

The classification procedure developed by Madron is based on the conversion, into the canonical form, of the matrix associated with the linear or linearized plant model equations. First a composed matrix, involving unmeasured and measured variables and a vector of constants, is formed. Then a Gauss-Jordan elimination, used for pivoting the columns belonging to the unmeasured quantities, is accomplished. In the next phase, the procedure applies the elimination to a resulting submatrix which contains measured variables. By rearranging the rows and columns of the macro-matrix,... 

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In this section we restrict considerations to an nxn nansingular matrix A. As shown in Section 1.1, the Gauss-Jordan elimination translates A into the identity matrix I. Selecting off-diagonal pivots we interchange some rows of I, and obtain a permutation matrix P instead, with exactly one element 1 in each row and in each column, all the other entries beeing zero. Matrix P is called permutation matrix, since the operation PA will interchange some rows of A. ... 

The next pivot will be [A]4 3 = 4.0, thereby interchanging rows 3 an 4. To eliminate xj from equation 3 we need the single multiplier -2.0/4.0 = -0.5, and obtain the matrix in the desired upper triangular form ... 

The lower triangular matrix L can be constructed from the multipliers used in the elimination steps if we adjust them according to the rows interchanged. Taking into account that for the row of the pivot the multiplier is necessarily 1.0 (i.e., this row remains unchanged), in the three steps of the Gaussian... 

As you learned in the previous sections, LU decomposition with built-in partial pivoting, followed by backsubstitution is a good method to solve the matrix equation Ax = b. You can use, however, considerable simpler technics if the matrix A has some special structure. In this section we assume that A is symmetric (i.e., AT = A), and positive definite (i.e., x Ax > 0 for all x 0 you will encounter the expression x Ax many times in this book, and hence we note that it is called quadratic form.) The problem considered here is special, but very important. In particular, estimating parameters in Chapter 3 you will have to invert matrices of the form A = X X many times, where X is an nxm matrix. The matrix X X is clearly symmetric, and it is positive definite if the columns of X are linearly independent. Indeed, x (x" X)x = (Xx) (Xx) > 0 for every x since it is a sum of squares. Thus (Xx) (Xx) = 0 implies Xx = 0 and also x = 0 if the columns of X are linearly independent. 

In Examples 1.1.2 and 1.1.3 we did not need the row interchange option of the program. This option is useful in pivoting, a practically indispensable auxiliary step in the Gauss-Jordan procedure, as will be discussed in the next section. Mhile the Gauss-Jordan procedure is a straightforward way of solving matrix equations, it is less efficient than some methods discussed later in this chapter. It is, however, almost as efficient as any other method to calculate the inverse of a matrix, the topics of our next section. 

Calculate the inverse of A in Example 1.1.4 by different pivoting strategies. Save the inverse in an array and check its accuracy by evaluating the matrix product -. ... 

The other columns of V are then made orthogonal to the kth ( best ) column by adding an appropriate multiple of the kth column to each. (Zero elements must be skipped.) The same operation is also performed on a unit matrix M having the same number of columns as V. The resulting transformed V matrix now has all other columns orthogonal to the pivot column k the matrix M has been converted into the matrix which, multiplied into the original V matrix from the right, transforms it into the new V matrix, V1—i.e.,... 

The row operations (a) to (c) are performed on (A b) until the front m by n matrix A achieves row echelon form. In a row echelon form R of A each row has a first nonzero entry, called a pivot, that is further to the right than the leading nonzero entry (pivot) of any previous row, or it is the zero row. 

Columns with pivots in a REF are called pivot columns, those without pivots are free columns. The number of pivots in a REF of a matrix A is called the rank of A. 

Fibroblasts and endothelial cells do not assemble hemidesmosomes. Rather, their matrix adhesive devices are so-called focal contacts. Pivotal components of focal contacts are heterodimeric integrins that bind to a... 

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