From owner-metabolic-reg@net.bio.net Wed Oct 06 11:24:00 1999 Path: biosci!newshost.lanl.gov!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.icl.net!btnet-peer!btnet!news5-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!server4.netnews.ja.net!server2.netnews.ja.net!hgmp.mrc.ac.uk!biosci From: JHSH@LAND.SUN.AC.ZA ("Jannie Hofmeyr") Newsgroups: bionet.metabolic-reg Subject: Re: how do I define the l mtarix from MCA in maple? Date: 6 Oct 1999 13:17:33 +0100 Organization: Stellenbosch University Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <37FB23F5.7F88DB1B@bio.vu.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk 939212254 13025 193.62.192.80 (6 Oct 1999 12:17:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 6 Oct 1999 12:17:34 GMT X-Received: from mail.sun.ac.za (mail.sun.ac.za [146.232.128.1]) by hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA17886 for ; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:17:26 +0100 (BST) X-Received: from land.sun.ac.za ([146.232.216.2]) by mail.sun.ac.za with esmtp (Exim 2.10 #1) id 11Yq0R-00050g-00 for btk-mca@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 14:17:15 +0200 X-Received: from SUN_LAND/SpoolDir by land.sun.ac.za (Mercury 1.44); 6 Oct 99 14:16:12 +0200 X-Received: from SpoolDir by SUN_LAND (Mercury 1.44); 6 Oct 99 14:15:53 +0200 X-To: btk-mca@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk X-Reply-to: jhsh@mail.sun.ac.za X-Priority: normal X-In-reply-to: <37FB23F5.7F88DB1B@bio.vu.nl> X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12) Frank Bruggeman wrote > Thank you all for your reactions and to be honoust I do not know what SVD means Singular Value Decomposition, according to many (Strang, for example) the most important result from linear algebra. Any good linear algebra text should explain what it is and what it gives you. Jannie Prof. Jannie Hofmeyr Tel: +27 21 808 3039 Dept. of Biochemistry Fax: +27 21 808 3022 University of Stellenbosch e-mail: jhsh@maties.sun.ac.za Private Bag X1 Matieland 7602 Stellenbosch South Africa --- .