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IBM® SPSS® Amos™ 28

Replaces a nonnegative definite symmetric matrix with its Cholesky square root.

Syntax

object.InstantSqrt (n, x, rank, sqrdet)

The InstantSqrt property syntax has the following parts:

Part

Description

object

An object of type AmosRanGen.

n

Input of type Integer. The number of rows in the matrix.

x

Input and output array of length N*(N+1)/2, of type Double. x contains the first element of the first row, the first two elements of the second row, and so on. The first element of x is passed by reference.

rank

Output of type Integer. The number of pivot elements greater than CholeskyEpsilon.

sqrdet

Output of type double. The square root of the determinant.

Remarks

On output, x and sqrdet are meaningful only if rank = n.

See Also

CholeskyEpsilon Property

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