rmvnorm {spam} | R Documentation |
Fast ways to draw multivariate normals when the variance or precision matrix is sparse.
rmvnorm.spam(n,mu=rep(0, nrow(Sigma)), Sigma,...) rmvnorm.prec(n,mu=rep(0, nrow(Q)), Q, ...) rmvnorm.canonical(n, b, Q, ...)
n |
number of observations. |
mu |
mean vector. |
Sigma |
covariance matrix of class spam . |
Q |
precision matrix. |
b |
vector determining the mean. |
... |
arguments passed to chol . |
There is intentionally no S3 distinction between the classes
spam
and spam.chol.
method.
Reinhard Furrer, based on Ng and Peyton (1993) Fortran routines
See references in chol
.
# Generate multivariate form a covariance inverse: # (usefull for GRMF) set.seed(13) n <- 25 # dimension N <- 1000 # sample size Sigmainv <- .25^abs(outer(1:n,1:n,"-")) Sigmainv <- as.spam( Sigmainv, eps=1e-4) Sigma <- solve( Sigmainv) # for verification iidsample <- array(rnorm(N*n),c(n,N)) mvsample <- backsolve( chol(Sigmainv), iidsample) norm( var(t(mvsample)) - Sigma, type="HS") # compare with: mvsample <- backsolve( chol(as.matrix( Sigmainv)), iidsample) norm( var(t(mvsample)) - Sigma, type="HS") # 'solve' step by step: b <- rnorm( n) R <- chol(Sigmainv) norm( backsolve( R, forwardsolve( R, b))- solve( Sigmainv, b),type="HS") norm( backsolve( R, forwardsolve( R, diag(n)))- Sigma,type="HS")