Preface
About the notes
In statistics and machine learning we make frequent use of matrix notation, algebra, decompositions and vector and matrix calculus. The aim of these supplementary notes is to provide a refresher for students to quickly gain a working knowledge about matrices and the calculus of functions with several variables.
The notes are supporting information for a number of lecture courses in statistics that I teach or have taught at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Manchester.
This includes the currently offered modules:
as well as the retired module (not offered any more):