Linear Algebra Review

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Lecture 1, Sep. 5, 2007

Basics of Linear Algebra: vector spaces, linear combinations, linear dependence and independence, bases and coordinates.
Linear transformations and matrices, matrix multiplication, coefficient matrices and systems of linear equations, ker and Im of a linear transformation, change of basis and coordinate transformation matrices.

 

Lecture 2, Sep. 7, 2007

Inner products, norms, the dual space, the Riesz representation theorem. Cauchy-Schwartz inequality, triangle inequality. Orthonormal bases, orthogonal complements and orthogonal projections. The Gramm-Schmidt algorithm. Orthogonal transformations and orthogonal matrices.

Eigenvectors and Eigenvalues, determinants and characteristic polynomial. The Spectral Theorem.

 

Lecture 3, Sep. 10, 2007

Matrix decompositions: the singular value decomposition (SVD), the QR-decomposition, orthogonal projections and Householder reflections

 

Lecture 4, Sep. 11, 2007

Numerical experiments with MATLAB.
Least squares problems.
Numerical Analysis: floating point numbers, algorithms, stability and backward stability. Condition numbers, well and ill-conditioned problems, ill-conditioning of root finding. Condition number of a matrix. LU-decomposition without and with pivoting.

 

Lecture 5, Sep. 12, 2007

Cholesky decomposition.
Algorithms for finding eigenvalues and eigenvectors. Rayleigh quotient, power iteration, inverse iteration, Rayleigh inverse iteration.

 

Lecture 6, Sep. 14, 2007

Regression Analysis
Linear Models, Ordinary Least Square Estimators, Statistical Properties of OLS Estimators


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Lecture 7, Sep. 17, 2007

Efficient and Unbiased Estimators
The Gauss-Markov Theorem, Hypothesis Testing in Linear Models

 

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