R help - Nov 2009 - R: chol( neg.def.matrix ) WAS: Re: Choleski and Choleski with pivoting of matrix fails

Thanks Chuck!
It works! But Once I have the square root of this matrix, how do I convert it 
to a real (not imaginary) matrix which has the same property? Is that 
possible?

Best,
Simon
>----Messaggio originale----
>Da: cberry at tajo.ucsd.edu
>Data: 21-nov-2009 18.11
>A: "simona.racioppi at libero.it"<simona.racioppi at
libero.it>
>Cc: <r-help at r-project.org>
>Ogg: chol( neg.def.matrix ) WAS: Re: [R] Choleski and Choleski with pivoting
of matrix fails
>
>On Sat, 21 Nov 2009, simona.racioppi at libero.it wrote:
>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> I need to take the square root of the following matrix:
>>
>>                [,1]               [,2]                [,3]
>> [1,]  0.5401984 -0.3998675 -1.3785897
>> [2,] -0.3998675  1.0561872  0.8158639
>> [3,] -1.3785897  0.8158639  1.6073119
>>
>> I tried Choleski which fails. I then tried Choleski with pivoting, but
>> unfortunately the square root I get is not valid. I also tried eigen
>> decomposition but i did no get far.
>>
>> Any clue on how to do it?!
>
>
>If you want to take the square root of a negative definite matrix, you 
>could use
>
> 	sqrtm( neg.def.mat )
>
>from the expm package on rforge:
>
> 	http://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/expm/
>
>HTH,
>
>Chuck
>
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Simon
>>
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