Matrix Algebra Theory, Computations, and Applications in Statistic

I began this book as an update of Numerical Linear Algebra for Applications in Statistics, published by Springer in 1998. There was a modest amount of new material to add, but I also wanted to supply more of the reasoning behind the facts about vectors and matrices. I had used material from that text in some courses, and I had spent a considerable amount of class time proving assertions made but not proved in that book. As I embarked on this project, the character of the book began to change markedly. In the previous book, I apologized for spending 30 pages on the theory and basic facts of linear algebra before getting on to the main interest: numerical linear algebra. In the present book, discussion of those basic facts takes up over half of the book. The orientation and perspective of this book remains numerical linear algebra for applications in statistics. Computational considerations inform the narrative. There is an emphasis on the areas of matrix analysis that are important for statisticians, and the kinds of matrices encountered in statistical applications receive special attention.