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by dgb23 1810 days ago
As a complete layman the second one, given your explanation, seems to be more generic and declarative. Is that a correct assumption?
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syockit 1809 days ago
Yes, it basically means "solve 𝐗𝛉 = y for 𝛉", for which inverting 𝐗 is one of the many methods that can be used to solve it. MATLAB also has the same backslash operator to mean the same thing.
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