## Copyright (C) 1995-2013 Friedrich Leisch
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} spencer (@var{x})
## Return Spencer's 15 point moving average of each column of
## @var{x}.
## @end deftypefn

## Author: FL <Friedrich.Leisch@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
## Description: Apply Spencer's 15-point MA filter

function retval = spencer (x)

  if (nargin != 1)
    print_usage ();
  endif

  [xr, xc] = size (x);

  n = xr;
  c = xc;

  if (isvector (x))
   n = length (x);
   c = 1;
   x = reshape (x, n, 1);
  endif

  w = [-3, -6, -5, 3, 21, 46, 67, 74, 67, 46, 21, 3, -5, -6, -3] / 320;

  retval = fftfilt (w, x);
  retval = [zeros(7,c); retval(15:n,:); zeros(7,c);];

  retval = reshape (retval, xr, xc);

endfunction