3191
|
1 ## Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997 Friedrich Leisch |
3426
|
2 ## |
3922
|
3 ## This file is part of Octave. |
|
4 ## |
|
5 ## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it |
|
6 ## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
3191
|
7 ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) |
|
8 ## any later version. |
3426
|
9 ## |
3922
|
10 ## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but |
3191
|
11 ## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
|
12 ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU |
3426
|
13 ## General Public License for more details. |
|
14 ## |
3191
|
15 ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
3922
|
16 ## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free |
5307
|
17 ## Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA |
|
18 ## 02110-1301, USA. |
3191
|
19 |
3449
|
20 ## -*- texinfo -*- |
|
21 ## @deftypefn {Function File} {} hurst (@var{x}) |
|
22 ## Estimate the Hurst parameter of sample @var{x} via the rescaled range |
|
23 ## statistic. If @var{x} is a matrix, the parameter is estimated for |
|
24 ## every single column. |
|
25 ## @end deftypefn |
3191
|
26 |
3457
|
27 ## Author: FL <Friedrich.Leisch@ci.tuwien.ac.at> |
|
28 ## Description: Estimate the Hurst parameter |
3426
|
29 |
3191
|
30 function H = hurst (x) |
|
31 |
|
32 if (nargin != 1) |
|
33 usage ("hurst (x)"); |
|
34 endif |
|
35 |
4030
|
36 if (isscalar (x)) |
3457
|
37 error ("hurst: x must not be a scalar") |
4030
|
38 elseif (isvector (x)) |
3191
|
39 x = reshape (x, length (x), 1); |
|
40 end |
3426
|
41 |
3238
|
42 [xr, xc] = size (x); |
3191
|
43 |
|
44 s = std (x); |
|
45 w = cumsum (x - mean (x)); |
|
46 RS = (max(w) - min(w)) ./ s; |
|
47 H = log (RS) / log (xr); |
3426
|
48 |
3191
|
49 endfunction |