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— Optimization - find numbers or functions minimizing<br />

certain objectives, e.g. designing experiments<br />

for maximum information/minimum variance<br />

etc.; associated numerical methods.<br />

8<br />

• In Statistics, matrices are convenient ways to store<br />

and refer to data. As well, in Regression for<br />

instance, there are important structural features<br />

that come from examining the algebraic properties<br />

of the vector space formed from all linear<br />

combinations of the columns of a matrix.<br />

• As for the first of these - matrices as data storage<br />

- you should learn various ways to manipulate matrices.<br />

In particular, the formula for the product<br />

of two matrices - that the ( ) element of the<br />

product AB of an × matrix A and a × <br />

matrix B is given by<br />

[AB] =<br />

X<br />

=1<br />

A B

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