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SVD is stable, and in some sense incorporates all the stable data you can have, so the answer is: "anything you can see on the SVD". Specifically you can easily see the signature (assuming the matrix is far enough from non-singular)being singular).

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SVD is stable, and in some sense incorporates all the stable data you get can have, so the answer is: "anything you can see on the SVD". Specifically you can easily see the signature (assuming the matrix is far enough from non-singular).

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SVD is stable, and in some sense incorporates all the stable data you get have, so the answer is: "anything you can see on the SVD". Specifically you can easily see the signature (assuming the matrix is far enough from non-singular).