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Probabilistic analyses of condition numbers*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 May 2016

Felipe Cucker
Felipe Cucker*
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Department of Mathematics, City University of Hong Kong E-mail: macucker@cityu.edu.hk
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Abstract

In recent decades, condition numbers have joined forces with probabilistic analysis to give rise to a form of condition-based analysis of algorithms. In this paper we survey how this analysis is done via a number of examples. We precede this catalogue of examples with short primers on both condition numbers and probabilistic analyses.

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Acta Numerica , Volume 25 , 01 May 2016 , pp. 321 - 382
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© Cambridge University Press, 2016 

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