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1 ## Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997 Kurt Hornik |
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2 ## |
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3 ## This file is part of Octave. |
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4 ## |
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5 ## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it |
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6 ## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
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7 ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) |
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8 ## any later version. |
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9 ## |
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10 ## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but |
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11 ## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
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12 ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU |
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13 ## General Public License for more details. |
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14 ## |
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15 ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
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16 ## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free |
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17 ## Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA |
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18 ## 02111-1307, USA. |
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20 ## -*- texinfo -*- |
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21 ## @deftypefn {Function File} {} cov (@var{x}, @var{y}) |
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22 ## If each row of @var{x} and @var{y} is an observation and each column is |
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23 ## a variable, the (@var{i},@var{j})-th entry of |
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24 ## @code{cov (@var{x}, @var{y})} is the covariance between the @var{i}-th |
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25 ## variable in @var{x} and the @var{j}-th variable in @var{y}. If called |
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26 ## with one argument, compute @code{cov (@var{x}, @var{x})}. |
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27 ## @end deftypefn |
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29 ## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at> |
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30 ## Description: Compute covariances |
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31 |
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32 function c = cov (x, y) |
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33 |
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34 if (nargin < 1 || nargin > 2) |
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35 usage ("cov (x, y)"); |
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36 endif |
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37 |
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38 if (rows (x) == 1) |
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39 x = x'; |
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40 endif |
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41 n = rows (x); |
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42 |
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43 if (nargin == 2) |
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44 if (rows (y) == 1) |
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45 y = y'; |
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46 endif |
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47 if (rows (y) != n) |
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48 error ("cov: x and y must have the same number of observations"); |
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49 endif |
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50 x = x - ones (n, 1) * sum (x) / n; |
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51 y = y - ones (n, 1) * sum (y) / n; |
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52 c = conj (x' * y / (n - 1)); |
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53 elseif (nargin == 1) |
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54 x = x - ones (n, 1) * sum (x) / n; |
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55 c = conj (x' * x / (n - 1)); |
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56 endif |
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57 |
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58 endfunction |