Volume 20, Issue 3, October 2013, Pages 431 - 439
On near and the nearest correlation matrix
Authors
Pasha Zusmanovich*
Department of Mathematics, Tallinn University of Technology, Ehitajate tee 5, Tallinn 19086, Estonia,pasha.zusmanovich@ttu.ee
*
Current address: Department of Mathematics and Physics, North Carolina Central University, 1801 Fayetteville St., Durham, NC 27707, USA
Received 9 April 2013, Accepted 30 August 2013, Available Online 6 January 2021.
- DOI
- 10.1080/14029251.2013.855050How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Correlation matrix; positive definite matrix; matrix nearness problem; versal deformations of matrices
- Abstract
We present an elementary heuristic reasoning based on Arnold's theory of versal deformations in support of a straightforward algorithm for finding a correlation matrix near a given symmetric one.
- Copyright
- © 2013 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press and Taylor & Francis
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - JOUR AU - Pasha Zusmanovich PY - 2021 DA - 2021/01/06 TI - On near and the nearest correlation matrix JO - Journal of Nonlinear Mathematical Physics SP - 431 EP - 439 VL - 20 IS - 3 SN - 1776-0852 UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/14029251.2013.855050 DO - 10.1080/14029251.2013.855050 ID - Zusmanovich2021 ER -