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- ## Copyright (C) 1996, 1997 John W. Eaton
- ##
- ## This file is part of Octave.
- ##
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-
- ## -*- texinfo -*-
- ## @deftypefn {Function File} {} kurtosis (@var{x})
- ## If @var{x} is a vector of length @var{N}, return the kurtosis
- ## @iftex
- ## @tex
- ## $$
- ## {\rm kurtosis} (x) = {1\over N \sigma(x)^4} \sum_{i=1}^N (x_i-\bar{x})^4 - 3
- ## $$
- ## @end tex
- ## @end iftex
- ## @ifinfo
- ##
- ## @example
- ## kurtosis (x) = N^(-1) std(x)^(-4) sum ((x - mean(x)).^4) - 3
- ## @end example
- ## @end ifinfo
- ##
- ## @noindent
- ## of @var{x}. If @var{x} is a matrix, return the row vector containing
- ## the kurtosis of each column.
- ## @end deftypefn
-
- ## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
- ## Created: 29 July 1994
- ## Adapted-By: jwe
-
- function retval = kurtosis (x)
-
- if (nargin != 1)
- usage ("kurtosis (x)");
- endif
-
- if (is_vector (x))
- x = x - mean (x);
- if (! any (x))
- retval = 0;
- else
- retval = sum (x .^ 4) / (length (x) * std (x) ^ 4) - 3;
- endif
- elseif (is_matrix (x))
- [nr, nc] = size (x);
- x = x - ones (nr, 1) * mean (x);
- retval = zeros (1, nc);
- s = std (x);
- ind = find (s > 0);
- retval (ind) = sum (x (:, ind) .^ 4) ./ (nr * s (ind) .^ 4) - 3;
- else
- error ("kurtosis: x has to be a matrix or a vector.");
- endif
-
- endfunction
-