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# scipy.linalg.orthogonal_procrustes

`scipy.linalg.``orthogonal_procrustes`(A, B, check_finite=True)

  Compute the matrix solution of the orthogonal Procrustes problem.

  Given matrices A and B of equal shape, find an orthogonal matrix R that most closely maps A to B [R87]. Note that unlike higher level Procrustes analyses of spatial data, this function only uses orthogonal transformations like rotations and reflections, and it does not use scaling or translation.

  Parameters: | A : (M, N) array_like Matrix to be mapped. B : (M, N) array_like Target matrix. check_finite : bool, optional Whether to check that the input matrices contain only finite numbers. Disabling may give a performance gain, but may result in problems (crashes, non-termination) if the inputs do contain infinities or NaNs.
  Returns: | R : (N, N) ndarray The matrix solution of the orthogonal Procrustes problem. Minimizes the Frobenius norm of dot(A, R) - B, subject to dot(R.T, R) == I. scale : float Sum of the singular values of `dot(A.T, B)`.
  Raises: | ValueError If the input arrays are incompatibly shaped. This may also be raised if matrix A or B contains an inf or nan and check_finite is True, or if the matrix product AB contains an inf or nan.

  Notes

  New in version 0.15.0.

  References

  [R87] | (1, 2) Peter H. Schonemann, “A generalized solution of the orthogonal Procrustes problem”, Psychometrica – Vol. 31, No. 1, March, 1996.