
SVD AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, III
Algorithms, Architectures and Applications
M. Moonen and B. De Moor (Editors)
9 1995 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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'THE IMPORTANCE OF A GOOD CONDITION ESTIMATOR IN THE
URV
AND
ULV
ALGORITHMS
R.D. FIERRO
Department of Mathematics
California State University
San Marcos, CA 92096, U.S.A.
fierro@th under, csusm, edu
J.R. BUNCH
Department of Mathematics
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093, U.S.A.
jbunch@ucsd.edu
ABSTRACT. The
URV
and
ULV
decompositions are promising alternatives to the sin-
gular value decomposition for determining the numerical