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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} {} mahalanobis (@var{x}, @var{y})
- ## Return the Mahalanobis' D-square distance between the multivariate
- ## samples @var{x} and @var{y}, which must have the same number of
- ## components (columns), but may have a different number of observations
- ## (rows).
- ## @end deftypefn
-
- ## Author: Friedrich Leisch <leisch@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
- ## Created: July 1993
- ## Adapted-By: jwe
-
- function retval = mahalanobis (X, Y)
-
- if (nargin != 2)
- usage ("mahalanobis (X, Y)");
- endif
-
- [xr, xc] = size (X);
- [yr, yc] = size (Y);
-
- if (xc != yc)
- error ("mahalanobis: X and Y must have the same number of columns.");
- endif
-
- Xm = sum (X) / xr;
- Ym = sum (Y) / yr;
-
- X = X - ones (xr, 1) * Xm;
- Y = Y - ones (yr, 1) * Ym;
-
- W = (X' * X + Y' * Y) / (xr + yr - 2);
-
- Winv = inv (W);
-
- retval = (Xm - Ym) * Winv * (Xm - Ym)';
-
- endfunction
-