Vector visualization of multicollinearity

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The discussion focuses on the concept of multicollinearity in regression analysis, specifically within the context of the general linear model represented as $$y=a_0+\sum_{i=1}^{i=k} a_i x_i$$. It establishes that multicollinearity occurs when there is a significant correlation among the predictor variables, denoted as ##x_i##. Perfect multicollinearity is defined by the condition rank(X) < k, indicating that at least one predictor variable is a linear combination of others, resulting in a non-full rank matrix. The implications of multicollinearity on regression analysis are critical for accurate model interpretation and prediction.

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General linear model is
$$y=a_0+\sum_{i=1}^{i=k} a_i x_i$$
In regression analysis one always collects n observations of y at different inputs of ##x_i##s. n>>k or there will be many problems. For each regressor, and response y ,we tabulate all observations in a vector ##\textbf{x}_i## and ##\textbf{y}_i##, both is a vector of ##R^n##.So multicollinearity is the problem that there's significant correlation between the ##x_i##s. In practice some degree of multicollinearity exists. So perfectly no multicollinearity means all the ##\textbf{x}_i## are orthogonal to each other?ie.
$$\textbf{x}_i•\textbf{x}_j=0$$
For different i,j and strong multicollinearity means one of more of the vector makes a very small angle with the subspace form by the other vectors? As far as I know perfect multicollinearity means rank(X)<k. X is a n by k matrix with ith col as ##\textbf{x}_i##
 
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Perfect multicollinarity means that at least 1 predictor variable (columns) is a perfect linear combination of one or more of the other variables. Typically the variables are the columns of the matrix and observations are rows. In this situation, the matrix will not be full rank.
 
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