The Cholesky decomposition, also called the Cholesky factorization, of a symmetric positive definite matrix is its expression in terms of an upper
triangular matrix with strictly positive diagonal entries such that
Cholesky decomposition is implemented in the Wolfram
Language as CholeskyDecomposition [m ].
See also LU Decomposition ,
Matrix
Decomposition ,
QR Decomposition
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Linear Algebra for Applications in Statistics. Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag,
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Ch. 7 in Compact
Numerical Methods for Computers: Linear Algebra and Function Minimisation, 2nd ed.
Bristol, England: Adam Hilger, pp. 84-93, 1990. Press, W. H.;
Flannery, B. P.; Teukolsky, S. A.; and Vetterling, W. T. "Cholesky
Decomposition." §2.9 in Numerical
Recipes in FORTRAN: The Art of Scientific Computing, 2nd ed. Cambridge, England:
Cambridge University Press, pp. 89-91, 1992. Referenced on Wolfram|Alpha Cholesky Decomposition
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Weisstein, Eric W. "Cholesky Decomposition."
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