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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} statistics (@var{x})
## If @var{x} is a matrix, return a matrix with the minimum, first
## quartile, median, third quartile, maximum, mean, standard deviation,
## skewness and kurtosis of the columns of @var{x} as its rows.
##
## If @var{x} is a vector, treat it as a column vector.
## @end deftypefn

## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
## Description: Compute basic statistics

function S = statistics (X)

  if (nargin != 1)
    usage ("S = statistics (X)");
  endif

  if (prod (size (X)) > 1)
    if (isvector (X))
      X = reshape (X, length (X), 1);
    endif
    for k=1:columns(X)
      S(:,k) = [(min (X(:,k)));
                (empirical_inv ([0.25;0.5;0.75], X(:,k)));
                (max (X(:,k)));
                (mean (X(:,k)));
                (std (X(:,k)));
                (skewness (X(:,k)));
                (kurtosis (X(:,k)))];
    endfor
  else
    error ("statistics: invalid argument");
  endif

endfunction