Matrix Algebra From a Statistician's Perspective

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Summary: Execllent reference, even for non-statisticians
Review: I am not a statistician, but this book has been my major reference on matrix algebra since I got it. The presentation is a bit dense, but I want to point out that the author actually presents the proofs to essentially _all_ theorems in the book. Perhaps this explains the style. As for the content, I find this book very comprehensive in my experience. But the dense page-setting of the book actually makes it visually challenging to locate a result. I also note that there are extensive exercises at the end of every chapter, although I probably won't use this as a textbook for my students.

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Summary: An excellent book on matrices
Review: This book is a true rarity. The exposition is very mathematical, and, therefore, many mathematicians (interested in matrix algebra) will find this book very useful and interesting. The exposition is clear, and quite complete. Of great interest are topics such as idempotent matrices, differentiation of matrices, invertibility.

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Summary: Its a good tool book
Review: This is a pretty good tool book for a statistician but it still has some samll problems, (1) the first few chapters, author should give more examples to describe concepts. (2) author can use more clear or simple way to describe many basic concepts but he does not do it! (if you have taken Linear Algebra from math, you will understand what I mean). Overall, this is a pretty good bookfor beginners.