mpower {mvinfluence} | R Documentation |
Calculates the n
-th power of a square matrix, where n
can be a positive or negative integer or a fractional power.
mpower(A, n)
A |
A square matrix. Must also be symmetric for non-integer powers. |
n |
matrix power |
If n<0
, the method is applied to A^{-1}.
When n
is an integer, the function uses the Russian peasant method,
or repeated squaring for efficiency.
Otherwise, it uses the spectral decomposition of A
,
requiring a symmetric matrix.
Returns the matrix A^n
Michael Friendly
Packages corpcor and expm define similar functions.
M <- matrix(sample(1:9), 3,3) mpower(M,2) mpower(M,4) # make a symmetric matrix MM <- crossprod(M) mpower(MM, -1) Mhalf <- mpower(MM, 1/2) all.equal(MM, Mhalf %*% Mhalf)