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nilearn.connectome.vec_to_sym_matrix#

nilearn.connectome.vec_to_sym_matrix(vec, diagonal=None)[source]#

Return the symmetric matrix given its flattened lower triangular part.

Acts on the last dimension of the array if not 1-dimensional. Diagonal can be encompassed in vec or given separately. In both cases, note that diagonal elements are multiplied by sqrt(2).

New in version 0.3.

Parameters
vecnumpy.ndarray or list of numpy arrays, shape (…, n_columns * (n_columns + 1) /2) or

(…, (n_columns - 1) * n_columns / 2) if diagonal is given separately. The input array.

diagonalnumpy.ndarray, shape (…, n_columns), optional

The diagonal array to be stacked to vec. If None, the diagonal is assumed to be included in vec.

Returns
symnumpy.ndarray, shape (…, n_columns, n_columns).

The output symmetric matrix.

Notes

This function is meant to be the inverse of sym_matrix_to_vec. If you have discarded the diagonal in sym_matrix_to_vec, you need to provide it separately to reconstruct the symmetric matrix. For instance this can be useful for correlation matrices for which we know the diagonal is 1.