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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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-
- ## -*- texinfo -*-
- ## @deftypefn {Function File} {} mean (@var{x}, @var{opt})
- ## If @var{x} is a vector, compute the mean of the elements of @var{x}
- ## @iftex
- ## @tex
- ## $$ {\rm mean}(x) = \bar{x} = {1\over N} \sum_{i=1}^N x_i $$
- ## @end tex
- ## @end iftex
- ## @ifinfo
- ##
- ## @example
- ## mean (x) = SUM_i x(i) / N
- ## @end example
- ## @end ifinfo
- ## If @var{x} is a matrix, compute the mean for each column and return them
- ## in a row vector.
- ##
- ## With the optional argument @var{opt}, the kind of mean computed can be
- ## selected. The following options are recognized:
- ##
- ## @table @code
- ## @item "a"
- ## Compute the (ordinary) arithmetic mean. This is the default.
- ##
- ## @item "g"
- ## Computer the geometric mean.
- ##
- ## @item "h"
- ## Compute the harmonic mean.
- ## @end table
- ## @end deftypefn
-
- ## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
- ## Description: Compute arithmetic, geometric, and harmonic mean
-
- function y = mean (x, opt)
-
- if ((nargin < 1) || (nargin > 2))
- usage ("mean (x [, opt])");
- endif
-
- if isempty (x)
- error ("mean: x must not be empty");
- endif
-
- if (rows (x) == 1)
- x = x.';
- endif
-
- if (nargin == 1)
- opt = "a";
- endif
-
- [r, c] = size (x);
-
- if (strcmp (opt, "a"))
- y = sum (x) / r;
- elseif (strcmp (opt, "g"))
- y = NaN * ones (1, c);
- i = find (all (x > 0));
- if any (i)
- y(i) = exp (sum (log (x(:, i))) / r);
- endif
- elseif (strcmp (opt, "h"))
- y = NaN * ones (1, c);
- i = find (all (x != 0));
- if any (i)
- y(i) = r ./ sum (1 ./ x(:, i));
- endif
- else
- error (sprintf ("mean: option `%s' not recognized", opt));
- endif
-
- endfunction
-