[R] A question on orthogonal basis vectors

Thomas W Blackwell tblackw at umich.edu
Wed Aug 13 16:47:58 CEST 2003


The answer is certainly not unique.  Your email doesn't say
whether you are asking about principal components or simply
Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization.

-  tom blackwell  -  u michigan medical school  -  ann arbor  -

On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Feng Zhang wrote:

> I have a question about determining the orthogonal
> basis vectors.
> In the d-dimensinonal space, if I already know
> the first r orthogonal basis vectors, should I be
> able to determine the remaining d-r orthognal basis
> vectors automatically?
>
> Or the answer is not unique?
>
> Thanks for your attention.
>
> Fred




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