Evaluation of Determinants, Characteristic Equations and Their Roots for a Class of Patterned Matrices
一类具有特定结构的矩阵的行列式、特征方程及其根的计算
SUMMARY The variance–covariance matrices arising in the analysis of variance, response-surface fitting and order statistics have special patterns expediting and facilitating their algebraic manipulation. By appropriate triangulation and partitioning devices, the determinants of these matrices can be evaluated from general formulae. The characteristic equations, and sometimes their roots, can also be obtained in a direct single step.