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- ## Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997 Kurt Hornik
- ##
- ## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- ## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
- ## any later version.
- ##
- ## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
- ## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
- ## General Public License for more details.
- ##
- ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- ## along with this file. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
- ## 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
-
- ## usage: center (x)
- ##
- ## If x is a vector, subtract its mean.
- ## If x is a matrix, do the above for each column.
-
- ## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
- ## Description: Center by subtracting means
-
- function retval = center (x)
-
- if (nargin != 1)
- usage ("center (x)");
- endif
-
- if is_vector (x)
- retval = x - mean(x);
- elseif is_matrix (x)
- retval = x - ones (rows (x), 1) * mean(x);
- else
- error ("center: x must be a vector or a matrix.");
- endif
-
- endfunction