This function is a constructor for the pdBlocked class,
representing a positive-definite block-diagonal matrix. Each
block-diagonal element of the underlying matrix is itself a
positive-definite matrix and is represented internally as an
individual pdMat object. When value is
numeric(0), a list of uninitialized pdMat objects, a
list of one-sided formulas, or a list of vectors
of character strings, object is returned
as an uninitialized pdBlocked object (with just some of its
attributes and its class defined) and needs to have its coefficients
assigned later, generally using the coef or matrix replacement
functions. If value is a list of initialized pdMat
objects, object will be constructed from the list obtained by
applying as.matrix to each of the pdMat elements of
value. Finally, if value is a list of numeric vectors,
they are assumed to represent the unrestricted coefficients
of the block-diagonal elements of the underlying positive-definite
matrix.
Usage
pdBlocked(value, form, nam, data, pdClass)
Arguments
Value
a pdBlocked object representing a positive-definite
block-diagonal matrix, also inheriting from class pdMat.