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1 ## Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997 Kurt Hornik |
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2 ## |
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3 ## This file is part of Octave. |
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4 ## |
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5 ## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it |
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6 ## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
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7 ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) |
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8 ## any later version. |
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9 ## |
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10 ## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but |
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11 ## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
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12 ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU |
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13 ## General Public License for more details. |
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14 ## |
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15 ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
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16 ## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free |
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17 ## Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA |
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18 ## 02111-1307, USA. |
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19 |
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20 ## -*- texinfo -*- |
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21 ## @deftypefn {Function File} {} var (@var{x}) |
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22 ## For vector arguments, return the (real) variance of the values. |
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23 ## For matrix arguments, return a row vector contaning the variance for |
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24 ## each column. |
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25 ## @end deftypefn |
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27 ## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at> |
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28 ## Description: Compute variance |
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30 function y = var(x) |
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31 |
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32 if (nargin != 1) |
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33 usage ("var (x)"); |
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34 endif |
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35 |
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36 [nr, nc] = size (x); |
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37 if (nr == 0 || nc == 0) |
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38 error ("var: x must not be empty"); |
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39 elseif ((nr == 1) && (nc == 1)) |
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40 y = 0; |
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41 elseif ((nr == 1) || (nc == 1)) |
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42 n = length (x); |
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43 y = (sumsq (x) - sum(x)^2 / n) / (n - 1); |
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44 else |
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45 y = (sumsq (x) - sum(x).^2 / nr) / (nr - 1); |
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46 endif |
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47 |
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48 endfunction |
