Statistical proofs of some matrix inequalities

Linear Algebra and Its Applications

Volumn 321, Issue 1-3, 2000, Pages 307-320

  Radhakrishna Rao, C ^a  

^a P ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

15A45; 62B10; 62G05; Carlen's inequality; Cauchy Schwarz inequality; Generalized inverse; Harmonic mean inequality; Information inequalities; Kronecker product; Miline's inequality; Parallel sum of matrices; Schur complement; Schur product

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034365314     PISSN: 00243795     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0024-3795(99)00276-1     Document Type: Article

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