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>> A=[1,1,-1;2,1,2;4,1,1]

A=

1 1 -1
2 1 2
4 1 1

>> b=[11;21;29;34]

b=

11
21
29
34

>> x=A^-1*b
Error using *
Inner matrix dimensions must agree.

>> A=[1,1,-1;2,1,2;3,13;4,1,1]
Dimensions of matrices being concatenated are not consistent.

>> A=[1,1,-1;2,1,2;3,1,3;4,1,1]

A=
 1 1 -1
2 1 2
3 1 3
4 1 1

>> x=A^-1*b
Error using ^
Inputs must be a scalar and a square matrix.
To compute elementwise POWER, use POWER (.^) instead.

>> x=A^-1*b
Error using ^
Inputs must be a scalar and a square matrix.
To compute elementwise POWER, use POWER (.^) instead.

>> x=pinv(A)*b

x=

7.0000
5.0000
1.0000

>> e=A*x-b; %error

>> norm(e)

ans =

2.0409e-14
>> randn('seed',0)
>> n=100

n=

100

>> [v,w]=meshgrid(1:10,1:10);
>> v=v(:); w=w(:); %point loads (KN)
>> M=70+4*v+7*w+10*randn(n,1); %moment at the support (KNm)
>> X=[ones(n,1),v,w];
>> y=M;
>> b=(X'*X)^-1*X'*y

b=

71.2280
3.9584
6.9506

>> e=X*b-y;
>> r2=1-sum(e.^2)/sum((y-mean(y)).^2)

r2 =

0.8543

>>