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- ## Copyright (C) 1996, 1997 John W. Eaton
- ##
- ## This file is part of Octave.
- ##
- ## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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- ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
- ## any later version.
- ##
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- ## General Public License for more details.
- ##
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- ## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free
- ## Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA
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-
- ## -*- texinfo -*-
- ## @deftypefn {Function File} {} std (@var{x})
- ## If @var{x} is a vector, compute the standard deviation of the elements
- ## of @var{x}.
- ## @iftex
- ## @tex
- ## $$
- ## {\rm std} (x) = \sigma (x) = \sqrt{{\sum_{i=1}^N (x_i - \bar{x}) \over N - 1}}
- ## $$
- ## @end tex
- ## @end iftex
- ## @ifinfo
- ##
- ## @example
- ## @group
- ## std (x) = sqrt (sumsq (x - mean (x)) / (n - 1))
- ## @end group
- ## @end example
- ## @end ifinfo
- ## If @var{x} is a matrix, compute the standard deviation for
- ## each column and return them in a row vector.
- ## @end deftypefn
-
- ## See also: mean, median
-
- ## Author: jwe
-
- function retval = std (a)
-
- if (nargin != 1)
- usage ("std (a)");
- endif
-
- nr = rows (a);
- nc = columns (a);
- if (nc == 1 && nr == 1)
- retval = 0;
- elseif (nc == 1 || nr == 1)
- n = length (a);
- retval = sqrt (sumsq (a - mean (a)) / (n - 1));
- elseif (nr > 1 && nc > 0)
- retval = sqrt (sumsq (a - ones (nr, 1) * mean (a)) / (nr - 1));
- else
- error ("std: invalid matrix argument");
- endif
-
- endfunction
-