PAPER:
Bhat, C.R. and A. Mondal, "On the Almost Exact-Equivalence of the Radial and Spherical Unconstrained Cholesky-Based Parameterization Methods for Correlation Matrices," Technical paper, Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, original version May 2021; revised version October 2021 (Keywords: correlation matrix, unconstrained optimization, spherical parameterization, radial parameterization, Cholesky decomposition, simulation).
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