orth¶

Purpose¶

Computes an orthonormal basis for the column space of a matrix.

y = orth(x)¶

Parameters:	x (NxK matrix) – data
Returns:	y (NxL matrix) – such that \(y'y = eye(L)\) and whose columns span the same space as the columns of x; L is the rank of x.

_orthol:	(scalar), the tolerance for testing if diagonal elements are approaching zero. The default is 1.0e-14.

x = { 6 5 4,
      2 7 5 };

y = orth(x);

After the code above:

y = -0.58123819      -0.81373347    y'y = 1  0
    -0.81373347       0.58123819          0  1

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