Exercise · ZW-CHOLESKY-FACTORIZATION-002 · ★☆☆ Basic

What form does the factor \(L\) have in \(A = LL^{T}\)?

Choose one option.

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  • A. Lower triangular with positive diagonal

Explanation

The Cholesky factor is lower triangular with positive diagonal. The upper triangular option confuses the convention used.

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The Cholesky factorization decomposes a symmetric positive definite matrix \(A\) as \(A = LL^{T}\), where \(L\) is lower triangular with positive diagonal.

\[A = LL^{T}, \; l_{jj} = \sqrt{a_{jj} - \sum_{k

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