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matrixcalc (version 1.0-6)

is.diagonal.matrix: Test for diagonal square matrix

Description

This function returns TRUE if the given matrix argument x is a square numeric matrix and that the off-diagonal elements are close to zero in absolute value to within the given tolerance level. Otherwise, a FALSE value is returned.

Usage

is.diagonal.matrix(x, tol = 1e-08)

Value

A TRUE or FALSE value.

Arguments

x

a numeric square matrix

tol

a numeric tolerance level usually left out

Author

Frederick Novomestky fnovomes@poly.edu

References

Bellman, R. (1987). Matrix Analysis, Second edition, Classics in Applied Mathematics, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

Horn, R. A. and C. R. Johnson (1990). Matrix Analysis, Cambridge University Press.

Examples

Run this code
A <- diag( 1, 3 )
is.diagonal.matrix( A )
B <- matrix( c( 1, 2, 3, 4 ), nrow=2, byrow=TRUE )
is.diagonal.matrix( B )
C <- matrix( c( 1, 0, 0, 0 ), nrow=2, byrow=TRUE )
is.diagonal.matrix( C )

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