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function retval = cov (X, Y)

# usage: cov (X [, Y])
#
# If each row of X and Y is an observation and each column is a
# variable, the (i,j)-th entry of cov(X, Y) is the covariance
# between the i-th variable in X and the j-th variable in Y.
# cov(X) is cov(X, X).

# Written by Kurt Hornik (hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at) March 1993.
# Dept of Probability Theory and Statistics TU Wien, Austria.

  if (nargin < 1 || nargin > 2)
    usage ("cov (X [, Y])");
  endif

  [Tx, kx] = size (X);
  if (nargin == 2)
    [Ty, ky] = size (Y);
    if (Tx != Ty)
      error ("cov: X and Y must have the same number of rows.");
    endif
    X = X - ones (Tx, 1) * sum (X) / Tx;
    Y = Y - ones (Tx, 1) * sum (Y) / Tx;
    retval = conj (X' * Y / (Tx - 1));
  elseif (nargin == 1)
    X = X - ones (Tx, 1) * sum (X) / Tx;
    retval = conj (X' * X / (Tx - 1));
  endif

endfunction