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Stat 5101 Lecture Notes - School of Statistics

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E.3. POSITIVE DEFINITE MATRICES 237where (E.7) is the spectral decomposition <strong>of</strong> A and where D 1/2 is defined to bethe diagonal matrix whose diagonal elements are √ d ii , where d ii are the diagonalelements <strong>of</strong> D.Moreover, A 1/2 is positive definite if and only if A is positive definite.Note that by Corollary E.5 all <strong>of</strong> the diagonal elements <strong>of</strong> D are nonnegativeand hence have real square roots.Pro<strong>of</strong>.A 1/2 A 1/2 = OD 1/2 O ′ OD 1/2 O ′ = OD 1/2 D 1/2 O ′ = ODO ′ = Abecause O ′ O = I and D 1/2 D 1/2 = D.From Corollary E.5 we know that A is positive definite if and only if all thed ii are strictly positive. Since (E.9) is the spectral decomposition <strong>of</strong> A 1/2 ,wesee that A 1/2 is positive definite if and only if all the √ d ii are strictly positive.Clearly d ii > 0 if and only if √ d ii > 0.

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