Using For Solution To Linear Inverse Problems
Compared to the direct matrix inverse, inverse solutions using QR decomposition are more numerically stable as evidenced by their reduced condition numbers .
To solve the underdetermined linear problem where the matrix A has dimensions and rank, first find the QR factorization of the transpose of A:, where Q is an orthogonal matrix (i.e. ), and R has a special form: . Here is a square right triangular matrix, and the zero matrix has dimension . After some algebra, it can be shown that the solution to the inverse problem can be expressed as: 
where is found by Gaussian elimination.
To find a solution to the overdetermined problem which minimizes the norm, first find the QR factorization of A: . The solution can then be expressed as, where and are the same as before, but now is a projection matrix that maps a vector in into .
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