Re: [Numpy-discussion] generalized_inverse

[Travis O. <oli...@ie...>]

Victoria G. Laidler wrote:
> Sven Schreiber wrote:
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>> Jon Peirce schrieb:
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>>> There used to be a function generalized_inverse in the numpy.linalg 
>>> module (certainly in 0.9.2).
>>>
>>> In numpy0.9.8 it seems to have been moved to the numpy.linalg.old 
>>> subpackage. Does that mean it's being dropped? Did it have to move? Now 
>>> i have to add code to my package to try both locations because my users 
>>> might have any version... :-(
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>> Maybe I don't understand, but what's wrong with numpy.linalg.pinv?
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> Er, what's a pinv? It doesn't sound anything like a generalized_inverse.
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'pseudo'-inverse.
 
It's the name MATLAB uses for the thing.    There are many choices for a 
"generalized_inverse" which is actually a mis-nomer for what is being 
done.  The Moore-Penrose pseudo-inverse is a particular form of the 
generalized_inverse (and the one being computed).

-Travis