vandermonde.matrix {matrixcalc} | R Documentation |
This function returns an m by n matrix of the powers of the alpha vector
vandermonde.matrix(alpha, n)
alpha |
A numerical vector of values |
n |
The column dimension of the Vandermonde matrix |
A matrix.
Frederick Novomestky fnovomes@poly.edu
Magnus, J. R. and H. Neudecker (1999) Matrix Differential Calculus with Applications in Statistics and Econometrics, Second Edition, John Wiley.
alpha <- c( .1, .2, .3, .4 ) V <- vandermonde.matrix( alpha, 4 )