On Thu, 20 Dec 2012, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Dec 2012, Andreas Noack Jensen wrote:
>
>> When I write code for reduced rank regression in Gretl I need to make
>> special cases for rank zero and one lag. I think the only possible value
>> for the entries of matrix(5,0)*matrix(0,5) is zeros and the argument is
>> reduced rank. The matrix matrix(5,r)*matrix(r,5) generally has rank
>> min(5,r) and the only zero rank matrix is the zero matrix.
>
> By my amateurish command of linear algebra, this is a very convincing 
> argument.

It convinces me too. I've made a small start in CVS:

<hansl>
eval zeros(5,0) * zeros(0,5)
eval zeros(0,3) * zeros(3,0)
eval zeros(0,5)'zeros(0,5)
eval zeros(0,5) * zeros(5,2)
</hansl>

Is the last result OK, do we think?

Allin

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