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Hi,

I'm trying to understand how mahal function in MATLAB works.
I see that the method used is different than the MD
calculations in the literature. How is QR decomposition used
here? Any help (maybe references, links etc.) will be
appreciated.

Thanks,

Baris Yenidunya