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-## Copyright (C) 1995-2011 Kurt Hornik
-##
-## This file is part of Octave.
-##
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-## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
-## your option) any later version.
-##
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-## General Public License for more details.
-##
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-## along with Octave; see the file COPYING.  If not, see
-## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-
-## -*- texinfo -*-
-## @deftypefn  {Function File} {} studentize (@var{x})
-## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} studentize (@var{x}, @var{dim})
-## If @var{x} is a vector, subtract its mean and divide by its standard
-## deviation.
-##
-## If @var{x} is a matrix, do the above along the first non-singleton
-## dimension.
-## If the optional argument @var{dim} is given, operate along this dimension.
-## @seealso{center}
-## @end deftypefn
-
-## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@wu-wien.ac.at>
-## Description: Subtract mean and divide by standard deviation
-
-function t = studentize (x, dim)
-
-  if (nargin != 1 && nargin != 2)
-    print_usage ();
-  endif
-
-  if (! isnumeric(x))
-    error ("studentize: X must be a numeric vector or matrix");
-  endif
-
-  if (isinteger (x))
-    x = double (x);
-  endif
-
-  nd = ndims (x);
-  sz = size (x);
-  if (nargin != 2)
-    ## Find the first non-singleton dimension.
-    dim = find (sz > 1, 1);
-    if (isempty (dim))
-      dim = 1;
-    endif
-  else
-    if (!(isscalar (dim) && dim == fix (dim))
-        || !(1 <= dim && dim <= nd))
-      error ("studentize: DIM must be an integer and a valid dimension");
-    endif
-  endif
-
-  c = sz(dim);
-  if (c == 0)
-    t = x;
-  else
-    idx = ones (1, nd);
-    idx(dim) = c;
-    t = x - repmat (mean (x, dim), idx);
-    t = t ./ repmat (max (cat (dim, std(t, [], dim), ! any (t, dim)), [], dim), idx);
-  endif
-
-endfunction
-
-%!assert(studentize ([1,2,3]), [-1,0,1])
-%!assert(studentize (int8 ([1,2,3])), [-1,0,1])
-#%!assert(studentize (ones (3,2,0,2)), zeros (3,2,0,2))
-%!assert(studentize ([2,0,-2;0,2,0;-2,-2,2]), [1,0,-1;0,1,0;-1,-1,1])
-
-%% Test input validation
-%!error studentize ()
-%!error studentize (1, 2, 3)
-%!error studentize ([true true])
-%!error studentize (1, ones(2,2))
-%!error studentize (1, 1.5)
-%!error studentize (1, 0)
-%!error studentize (1, 3)
-