Re: Quadratic Form Contours
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- Subject: [mg57732] Re: Quadratic Form Contours
- From: dh <dh at metrohm.ch>
- Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 02:03:33 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi Joerg,
To use "Ellipsoid" we need the semi-length and directions of the axes.
The direction we obtain from: Eigenvectors[A]
the half-length from: Sqrt[ b/Eigenvalues[A]]
Therefore, an ellipsoid would be specified by:
Ellipsoid[{x,y}, Sqrt[ b/Eigenvalues[A]], Eigenvectors[A] ]
The erason for this is:
If you turn the coordinate system in direction of the Eigenvectors, the
quadratic form looks like:
x1^2/ew1 + x2^2/ew2 == b
where ew means eigenvalue.
sincerely, Daniel
Joerg Schaber wrote:
> Hi,
>
> does anybody know a simple way to calculate 2-D ellipsoids in x={x1,x2}
> of a quadatric form solving xAx=b for a graphical output, i.e. contour
> lines of the quadrtic form expressed as the Graphics primitive Ellipsoid?
> I suppose that the option ParameterConfidenceRegion of NonlinearRegress
> does something like that, but how?
>
> best,
>
> joerg
>