Unlock: Positive Semidefinite Matrices

PSD matrices: equivalent characterizations, Cholesky decomposition, Schur complement, and Loewner ordering. Covariance matrices are PSD. Hessians of convex functions are PSD. These facts connect linear algebra to optimization and statistics.

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