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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn  {} {@var{y} =} std (@var{x})
## @deftypefnx {} {@var{y} =} std (@var{x}, @var{w})
## @deftypefnx {} {@var{y} =} std (@var{x}, @var{w}, @var{dim})
## @deftypefnx {} {@var{y} =} std (@var{x}, @var{w}, @qcode{"ALL"})
## @deftypefnx {} {[@var{y}, @var{mu}] =} std (@dots{})
## Compute the standard deviation of the elements of the vector @var{x}.
##
## The standard deviation is defined as
## @tex
## $$
## {\rm std} (x) = \sigma = \sqrt{{\sum_{i=1}^N (x_i - \bar{x})^2 \over N - 1}}
## $$
## where $\bar{x}$ is the mean value of @var{x} and $N$ is the number of elements of @var{x}.
## @end tex
## @ifnottex
##
## @example
## @group
## std (@var{x}) = sqrt ( 1/(N-1) SUM_i (@var{x}(i) - mean(@var{x}))^2 )
## @end group
## @end example
##
## @noindent
## where @math{N} is the number of elements of the @var{x} vector.
## @end ifnottex
##
## If @var{x} is an array, compute the standard deviation for each column and
## return them in a row vector (or for an n-D array, the result is returned as
## an array of dimension 1 x n x m x @dots{}).
##
## The optional argument @var{w} determines the weighting scheme to use.  Valid
## values are:
##
## @table @asis
## @item 0 [default]:
## Normalize with @math{N-1}.  This provides the square root of the best
## unbiased estimator of the variance.
##
## @item 1:
## Normalize with @math{N}@.  This provides the square root of the second
## moment around the mean.
##
## @item a vector:
## Compute the weighted standard deviation with non-negative scalar weights.
## The length of @var{w} must equal the size of @var{x} along dimension
## @var{dim}.
## @end table
##
## If @math{N} is equal to 1 the value of @var{W} is ignored and normalization
## by @math{N} is used.
##
## The optional variable @var{dim} forces @code{std} to operate over the
## specified dimension(s).  @var{dim} can either be a scalar dimension or a
## vector of non-repeating dimensions.  Dimensions must be positive integers,
## and the standard deviation is calculated over the array slice defined by
## @var{dim}.
##
## Specifying dimension @qcode{"all"} will force @code{std} to operate on all
## elements of @var{x}, and is equivalent to @code{std (@var{x}(:))}.
##
## When @var{dim} is a vector or @qcode{"all"}, @var{w} must be either 0 or 1.
##
## The optional second output variable @var{mu} contains the mean or weighted
## mean used to calculate @var{y}, and will be the same size as @var{y}.
## @seealso{var, bounds, mad, range, iqr, mean, median}
## @end deftypefn

function [y, mu] = std (varargin)

  if (nargin < 1)
    print_usage ();
  endif

  if (nargout < 2)
    y = sqrt (var (varargin{:}));
  else
    [y, mu] = var (varargin{:});
    y = sqrt (y);
  endif

endfunction


%!test
%! x = ones (10, 2);
%! y = [1, 3];
%! assert (std (x), [0, 0]);
%! assert (std (y), sqrt (2), sqrt (eps));
%! assert (std (x, 0, 2), zeros (10, 1));

%!assert (std (ones (3, 1, 2), 0, 2), zeros (3, 1, 2))
%!assert (std ([1 2], 0), sqrt (2)/2, 5*eps)
%!assert (std ([1 2], 1), 0.5, 5*eps)
%!assert (std (1), 0)
%!assert (std (single (1)), single (0))
%!assert (std ([1 2 3], [], 3), [0 0 0])

## Test input validation
%!error <Invalid call> std ()
