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7017 | 1 ## Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, |
9245 | 2 ## 2007, 2009 Kurt Hornik |
3426 | 3 ## |
3922 | 4 ## This file is part of Octave. |
5 ## | |
6 ## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it | |
7 ## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by | |
7016 | 8 ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at |
9 ## your option) any later version. | |
3426 | 10 ## |
3922 | 11 ## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but |
3200 | 12 ## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
13 ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU | |
3426 | 14 ## General Public License for more details. |
15 ## | |
3200 | 16 ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
7016 | 17 ## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see |
18 ## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. | |
3200 | 19 |
3453 | 20 ## -*- texinfo -*- |
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21 ## @deftypefn {Function File} {} var (@var{x}) |
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22 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} var (@var{x}, @var{opt}) |
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23 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} var (@var{x}, @var{opt}, @var{dim}) |
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24 ## Compute the variance of the elements of the vector @var{x}. |
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25 ## @tex |
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26 ## $$ |
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27 ## {\rm std} (x) = \sigma^2 = {\sum_{i=1}^N (x_i - \bar{x})^2 \over N - 1} |
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28 ## $$ |
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29 ## where $\bar{x}$ is the mean value of $x$. |
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30 ## @end tex |
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31 ## @ifnottex |
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33 ## @example |
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34 ## @group |
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35 ## std (x) = 1/(N-1) SUM_i (x(i) - mean(x))^2 |
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36 ## @end group |
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37 ## @end example |
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38 ## |
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39 ## @end ifnottex |
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40 ## If @var{x} is a matrix, compute the variance for each column |
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41 ## and return them in a row vector. |
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42 ## |
5435 | 43 ## The argument @var{opt} determines the type of normalization to use. |
44 ## Valid values are | |
4849 | 45 ## |
46 ## @table @asis | |
47 ## @item 0: | |
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48 ## normalize with @math{N-1}, provides the best unbiased estimator of the |
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49 ## variance [default] |
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52 ## normalizes with @math{N}, this provides the second moment around the mean |
4849 | 53 ## @end table |
54 ## | |
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55 ## If the optional argument @var{dim} is given, operate along this dimension. |
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56 ## @seealso{cov,std,skewness,kurtosis,moment} |
3453 | 57 ## @end deftypefn |
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5428 | 59 ## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@wu-wien.ac.at> |
3456 | 60 ## Description: Compute variance |
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62 function retval = var (x, opt = 0, dim) |
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4849 | 64 if (nargin < 1 || nargin > 3) |
6046 | 65 print_usage (); |
4849 | 66 endif |
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68 if (!isnumeric (x)) |
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69 error ("var: X must be a numeric vector or matrix"); |
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70 endif |
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72 if (isempty (opt)) |
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73 opt = 0; |
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74 endif |
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75 if (opt != 0 && opt != 1) |
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76 error ("var: normalization OPT must be 0 or 1"); |
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77 endif |
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6024 | 80 dim = find (size (x) > 1, 1); |
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86 n = size (x, dim); |
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87 if (n == 1) |
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88 retval = zeros (size (x), class (x)); |
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89 elseif (numel (x) > 0) |
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90 retval = sumsq (center (x, dim), dim) / (n - 1 + opt); |
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97 %!assert (var (13), 0) |
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98 %!assert (var ([1,2,3]), 1) |
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99 %!assert (var ([1,2,3], 1), 2/3, eps) |
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100 %!assert (var ([1,2,3], [], 1), [0,0,0]) |
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102 %% Test input validation |
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105 %!error var (true(1,2)) |
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