Problem with Singular Value Decomposition Algorithm

Brian Gough bjg@network-theory.co.uk
Wed Dec 19 13:20:00 GMT 2001


James Theiler writes:
 > i think there may be some confusion about transposes; see below.

 > isn't it 0.698103, -0.017900, -0.715774
 > ie, the third column and not the third row?

Yes, the right singular vectors are given by the columns of V. The
third column is the appropriate one.  

In this case V happens to be almost symmetric so the difference
between the two is less obvious than it would be for a random matrix.



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