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Part of the book series: Behaviormetrics: Quantitative Approaches to Human Behavior ((BQAHB,volume 16))

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When we deal with many variables, the designation of a variable by a subscript becomes cumbersome. Once we introduce the matrix notation, the expression of formulas with many variables can not only be vastly simplified, but it also leads to new mathematics of many variables in a unified way.

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Nishisato, S. (2023). Matrix Calculus. In: Measurement, Mathematics and New Quantification Theory. Behaviormetrics: Quantitative Approaches to Human Behavior, vol 16. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-2295-6_4

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