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Equivalence of minimizing trace and determinant over matrix quadratic form in multivariate regression
Consider the multivariate regression model
$$Y = XB + E$$
where $Y$ is $n \times p$ and corresponds to the dependent variables, $X$ is $n \times k$ and corresponds to the independent variables, $B$ is ...
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Extremal Covariance Duality
Given real vectors $v$ and $r$ of the same size, what are the following?
$\inf\{v'R^{-1}v ~ \colon ~ R>0 \, , \, \text{diag}(R)= r\}$
$\sup\{v'Rv ~ \colon ~ R>0\, , \, \text{diag}(R)= r\}$
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Derivative of rank $r$ approximation of matrix
Let $Y \in \mathbb R^{n \times c}$ and $r$ be an integer with $1 \le r \le \operatorname{rank}(Y)$. Consider the problem
$$\text{minimize} \|Y-X\|_{\text{Fro}}^2\text{ over }X \in \mathbb R^{n \times ...