identity matrix concept
| Definition | The square matrix with ones on the diagonal and zeros elsewhere, which leaves every vector unchanged. The identity reader is the read operator equal to it. Primer L section L.3. |
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| Example | The two by two identity has rows (1, 0) and (0, 1), and sends (3, 4) to (3, 4). |
| Book | Data Mining as Observation, draft 0.2, commit f3914f0; entry id identity-matrix, kind concept. |
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First stated
Primer L section L.3 of Data Mining as Observation, added in draft 0.3 (2026-09-09) for the ECE 514 readers whose first courses are far behind. The idea is standard and TSK Appendix A covers it at length.
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Used in
Data Mining as Observation chapters 0.
Related
identity reader; inverse; matrix.
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