.. _utilities_doc:

Utilities
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A module that contains miscalleneous methods used in various modules of ``UQpy``.  

.. automodule:: UQpy.Utilities
	:members: 
	
	
.. [1] N.J. Higham, "Computing a nearest symmetric positive semidefinite matrix" (1988), https://doi.org/10.1016/0024-3795(88)90223-6.

.. [2] https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/42885-nearestspd

.. [3] Houduo Qi, Defeng Sun, A Quadratically Convergent Newton Method for Computing the Nearest Correlation Matrix, SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications 28(2):360-385, 2006.
