Improved documentation of QR decomposition handling of singular matrix.

JIRA: MATH-1101

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Luc Maisonobe 2014-02-23 11:10:41 +00:00
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<release version="3.3" date="TBD" description="TBD">
<action dev="luc" type="add" issue="MATH-1101">
Improved documentation of QR decomposition handling of singular matrices.
</action>
<action dev="luc" type="add" issue="MATH-1053" due-to="Sean Owen">
QR decomposition can compute pseudo-inverses for tall matrices.
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@ -291,6 +291,14 @@ public class QRDecomposition {
/**
* Get a solver for finding the A &times; X = B solution in least square sense.
* <p>
* Least Square sense means a solver can be computed for an overdetermined system,
* (i.e. a system with more equations than unknowns, which corresponds to a tall A
* matrix with more rows than columns). In any case, if the matrix is singular
* within the tolerance set at {@link QRDecomposition#QRDecomposition(RealMatrix,
* double) construction}, an error will be triggered when
* the {@link DecompositionSolver#solve(RealVector) solve} method will be called.
* </p>
* @return a solver
*/
public DecompositionSolver getSolver() {

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@ -184,6 +184,14 @@ public class RRQRDecomposition extends QRDecomposition {
/**
* Get a solver for finding the A &times; X = B solution in least square sense.
* <p>
* Least Square sense means a solver can be computed for an overdetermined system,
* (i.e. a system with more equations than unknowns, which corresponds to a tall A
* matrix with more rows than columns). In any case, if the matrix is singular
* within the tolerance set at {@link RRQRDecomposition#RRQRDecomposition(RealMatrix,
* double) construction}, an error will be triggered when
* the {@link DecompositionSolver#solve(RealVector) solve} method will be called.
* </p>
* @return a solver
*/
@Override

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@ -144,10 +144,16 @@ RealVector solution = solver.solve(constants);
Each type of decomposition has its specific semantics and constraints on
the coefficient matrix as shown in the following table. For algorithms that
solve AX=B in least squares sense the value returned for X is such that the
residual AX-B has minimal norm. If an exact solution exist (i.e. if for some
X the residual AX-B is exactly 0), then this exact solution is also the solution
in least square sense. This implies that algorithms suited for least squares
problems can also be used to solve exact problems, but the reverse is not true.
residual AX-B has minimal norm. Least Square sense means a solver can be computed
for an overdetermined system, (i.e. a system with more equations than unknowns,
which corresponds to a tall A matrix with more rows than columns). If an exact
solution exist (i.e. if for some X the residual AX-B is exactly 0), then this
exact solution is also the solution in least square sense. This implies that
algorithms suited for least squares problems can also be used to solve exact
problems, but the reverse is not true. In any case, if the matrix is singular
within the tolerance set at construction, an error will be triggered when
the solve method will be called, both for algorithms that compute exact solutions
and for algorithms that compute least square solutions.
</p>
<p>
<table border="1" align="center">

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@ -273,5 +273,14 @@ public class QRDecompositionTest {
});
return m;
}
@Test(expected=SingularMatrixException.class)
public void testQRSingular() {
final RealMatrix a = MatrixUtils.createRealMatrix(new double[][] {
{ 1, 6, 4 }, { 2, 4, -1 }, { -1, 2, 5 }
});
final RealVector b = new ArrayRealVector(new double[]{ 5, 6, 1 });
new QRDecomposition(a, 1.0e-15).getSolver().solve(b);
}
}