Dirty-looking rascals, but I suppose every one has some little immortal spark concealed about him. Sherlock Holmes in “The Sign of Four” In statistics, data sets come in matrix form and the characteristics of the data can be written in terms of matrix operations. Understanding matrix algebra is crucial for investigating the properties of the observed data.
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(2007). A Short Excursion into Matrix Algebra. In: Multivariate Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-73508-5_2
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