1 Introduction: Consequences of Numerical Inaccuracy 1 -- 1.1 Importance of Understanding Computational Statistics 1 -- 1.2 Brief History: Duhem to the Twenty-First Century 3 -- 1.3 Motivating Example ...

In this paper some of the numerical problems associated with computing the generalized inverse of a matrix are discussed and illustrated by a detailed analysis of an iteration of Ben-Israel and Cohen.