Determinant of a Matrix

DESCRIPTION:

Computes the determinant (or its logarithm) of a Matrix. .LB Matrix

USAGE:

det.Matrix(x, logarithm=T, tune) 

REQUIRED ARGUMENTS:

x
a numeric or complex square Matrix inheriting from class "Matrix" .

OPTIONAL ARGUMENTS:

logarithm
a logical variable indicating whether or not the logarithm of the modulus of the determinant should be returned rather than the determinant itself. The default is to return the logarithm.
tune
a integer vector or list of named tuning parameters that may affect computational efficiency. The relevant parameter is the blocksize parameters NB as described in .laenv .

VALUE:

returns an object of class "det" .

DETAILS:

The determinant is computed from an LU factorization obtained via the function dgetrf or zgetrf from LAPACK (Anderson et al. 1994).

REFERENCES:

Anderson, E., et al. (1994). LAPACK User's Guide, 2nd edition, SIAM, Philadelphia. Golub, G., and Van Loan, C. F. (1989). Matrix Computations, 2nd edition, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore.

SEE ALSO:

, , , .

EXAMPLES:

x <- Matrix( sample(-3:3, size = 9, replace = T), nrow = 3, ncol = 3) 
det(x)