# # Test out the Cholesky # library(bdsmatrix) aeq <- function(x,y) all.equal(as.vector(x), as.vector(y)) tmat <- bdsmatrix(c(3,2,2,4), c(22,1,2,21,3,20,19,4,18,17,5,16,15,6,7, 8,14,9,10,13,11,12), matrix(c(1,0,1,1,0,0,1,1,0,1,0,10,0, 0,1,1,0,1,1,0,1,1,0,1,0,10), ncol=2)) dimnames(tmat) <- list(NULL, letters[1:13]) smat <- as.matrix(tmat) yy <- c(30,35,42,56,34,45,32,37,78,56,40,52,39) aeq(diag(tmat), diag(smat)) zz <- seq(1,13,2) aeq(as.matrix(tmat[zz,zz]), smat[zz,zz]) ch0 <- chol(smat) ch1 <- gchol(smat) ch2 <- gchol(tmat) # The gchol routines use the composition LDL', where L is lower triangular # with a diagonal of 1's, and D is diagonal. chol() uses U'U where U is # upper trangular. # The as.matrix function returns L and the diag function returns D. # Convert and compare aeq(diag(ch1), diag(ch2)) temp <- as.matrix(ch2) aeq(temp, as.matrix(ch1)) temp3 <- temp %*% diag(sqrt(diag(ch2))) aeq(temp3, t(ch0)) zz0 <- solve(smat, yy) zz1 <- solve(ch1, yy) zz2 <- solve(tmat, yy) aeq(zz1, zz2) aeq(zz0, zz1)