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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.
- ##
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- ## 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
-
- ## -*- texinfo -*-
- ## @deftypefn {Function File} {} cov (@var{x}, @var{y})
- ## If each row of @var{x} and @var{y} is an observation and each column is
- ## a variable, the (@var{i},@var{j})-th entry of
- ## @code{cov (@var{x}, @var{y})} is the covariance between the @var{i}-th
- ## variable in @var{x} and the @var{j}-th variable in @var{y}. If called
- ## with one argument, compute @code{cov (@var{x}, @var{x})}.
- ## @end deftypefn
-
- ## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
- ## Description: Compute covariances
-
- function c = cov (x, y)
-
- if (nargin < 1 || nargin > 2)
- usage ("cov (x [, y])");
- endif
-
- if (rows (x) == 1)
- x = x';
- endif
- n = rows (x);
-
- if (nargin == 2)
- if (rows (y) == 1)
- y = y';
- endif
- if (rows (y) != n)
- error ("cov: x and y must have the same number of observations.");
- endif
- x = x - ones (n, 1) * sum (x) / n;
- y = y - ones (n, 1) * sum (y) / n;
- c = conj (x' * y / (n - 1));
- elseif (nargin == 1)
- x = x - ones (n, 1) * sum (x) / n;
- c = conj (x' * x / (n - 1));
- endif
-
- endfunction
-