sourcecodes/bnt-master/KPMtools/isposdef.m


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function b = isposdef(a)
% ISPOSDEF   Test for positive definite matrix.
%    ISPOSDEF(A) returns 1 if A is positive definite, 0 otherwise.
%    Using chol is much more efficient than computing eigenvectors.

%  From Tom Minka's lightspeed toolbox

[R,p] = chol(a);
b = (p == 0);