logdet: Log Determinant

In msos: Data Sets and Functions Used in Multivariate Statistics: Old School by John Marden

Description

Takes the log determinant of a square matrix. Log is that of base e sometimes referred to as ln().

Usage

logdet(a)

Arguments

a	Square matrix (Q x Q)

Value

A single-value double.

See Also

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Examples

# Identity Matrix of size 2
logdet(diag(c(2, 2)))

Example output

Loading required package: mclust
Package 'mclust' version 5.4.3
Type 'citation("mclust")' for citing this R package in publications.
Loading required package: tree
[1] 1.386294

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