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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: irr (p [, i])
- ##
- ## Computes the internal rate of return of a series of payments p from
- ## an initial investment i, i.e., the solution of npv (r, p) = i. If the
- ## second argument is omitted, i = 0 is used.
- ##
- ## See also: npv; pv, rate.
-
- ## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
- ## Description: Internal rate of return of an investment
-
- function r = irr (p, i)
-
- if (nargin == 1)
- i = 0;
- elseif !(nargin == 2)
- usage ("irr (p [, i])");
- endif
-
- tmp = output_precision;
- output_precision = 15;
- if !(is_vector (p))
- error ("irr: p must be a vector");
- else
- p_string = type p;
- endif
-
- if !is_scalar (i)
- error ("irr: i must be a scalar");
- endif
-
- string = ["function delta = f (r) ", ...
- "delta = npv (r, %s) - %g; end"];
- eval (sprintf (string, p_string, i));
-
- r = fsolve ("f", 0.01);
-
- output_precision = tmp;
-
- endfunction
-