psych (version 2.4.1)

Pinv: Compute the Moore-Penrose Pseudo Inverse of a matrix

Description

Given a matrix of less than full rank, the conventional inverse function will fail. The pseudoinverse or generalized inverse resolves this problem by using just the postive values of the singular value decomposition d matrix. An adaptation of the ginv function from MASS and the pinv function from pracma.

Usage

Pinv(X, tol = sqrt(.Machine$double.eps))

Value

The generalized inverse

Arguments

X

A correlation or covariance matrix to analyze

tol

A very small number. Reject values with eigen values less than tolerance

Author

William Revelle

Details

The singular value decomposition of a matrix X is UdV where for full rank matrices, d is the vector of eigen values and U and V are the matrices of eigen vectors. The inverse is just U/d. If the matrix is less than full rank, many of the d values are effectively zero (at the limit of computational accuracy.) Thus, to solve matrix equations with matrices of less than full rank (e.g. the schmid Schmid-Leiman solution), we need to find the generalized inverse.

References

Venables, W. N. and Ripley, B. D. (1999) Modern Applied Statistics with S-PLUS. Third Edition. Springer. p.100.

See Also

schmid, faCor

Examples

round(Pinv(Thurstone) %*% Thurstone,2)  #an identity matrix
sl <- schmid(Thurstone,3)  #The schmid-leiman solution is less than full rank
F <- sl$sl[,1:4]    #the SL solution is general + 3 gropus
R <- Thurstone      #
diag(R) <- sl$sl[,5]  #the reproduced matrix (R - U2)
S <- t(Pinv(t(F) %*% F) %*% t(F) %*% R)  #the structure matrix
Phi <- t(S) %*%  F %*% Pinv(t(F) %*% F)  #the factor covariances