Projection Matrices, Generalized Inverse Matrices, and Singular Value Decomposition [Hardcover]

Aside from distribution theory, projections and the singular value decomposition (SVD) are the two most important concepts for understanding the basic mechanism of multivariate analysis. The former underlies the least squares estimation in regression analysis, which is essentially a projection of one subspace onto another, and the latter underlies principal component analysis, which seeks to find a subspace that captures the largest variability in the original space.

This book is about projections and SVD. A thorough discussion of generalized inverse (g-inverse) matrices is also given because it is closely related to the former. The book provides systematic and in-depth accounts of these concepts from a unified viewpoint of linear transformations finite dimensional vector spaces. More specially, it shows that projection matrices (projectors) and g-inverse matrices can be defined in various ways so that a vector space is decomposed into a direct-sum of (disjoint) subspaces. Projection Matrices, Generalized Inverse Matrices, and Singular Value Decomposition will be useful for researchers, practitioners, and students in applied mathematics, statistics, engineering, behaviormetrics, and other fields.

From the reviews:

The book under review is devoted, mainly, to projections and singular value decomposition (SVD). & Each chapter has some exercises. Many examples illustrate the presented material very well. The book should serve as a useful reference on projectors, general inverses and SVD, it is of interest to those working in matrix analysis, it can be recommended for graduate students as well as for professionals. (Edward L. Pekarev, zbMATH, Vol. 1279, 2014)

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