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Efficiently generating inverse-Wishart matrices and their Cholesky factors

Computation 2023-10-25 v1 Numerical Analysis Numerical Analysis

Abstract

This paper presents a new algorithm for generating random inverse-Wishart matrices that directly generates the Cholesky factor of the matrix without computing the factorization. Whenever parameterized in terms of a precision matrix Ω=Σ1\Omega=\Sigma^{-1}, or its Cholesky factor, instead of a covariance matrix Σ\Sigma, the new algorithm is more efficient than the current standard algorithm.

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@article{arxiv.2310.15884,
  title  = {Efficiently generating inverse-Wishart matrices and their Cholesky factors},
  author = {Seth D. Axen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.15884},
  year   = {2023}
}

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