Recent content by SanDiegoMike

Identifying the "largest determining factor" Hello, This is not strictly a statistics forum, but I'm hoping you guys may have sufficient background to help me out. I'm an engineer by trade, so my stats background is poor and I have had not had much luck searching for the answer or asking...

no worries, I figured out how to do the test. Very simple indeed. Thanks!

Thanks Stephen, I do believe you're correct. That seems to be a very clever way forward. It's been a long time since my undergraduate course work in linear algebra. Can you point me in the direction of an efficient algorithm for testing for such a matrix?

Hello, I apologise if this has been asked before. I did a search, but quite frankly, I'm not even sure what to search for. My gut feeling is that this problem has already been well defined and solved, so if someone could point me in the proper direction, that would be great. Consider...