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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.
- ##
- ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- ## along with this file. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
- ## 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
-
- ## usage: studentize (x)
- ##
- ## If x is a vector, subtract its mean and divide by its standard
- ## deviation.
- ##
- ## If x is a matrix, do the above for each column.
-
- ## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
- ## Description: Subtract mean and divide by standard deviation
-
- function t = studentize (x)
-
- if (nargin != 1)
- usage ("studentize (x)");
- endif
-
- if is_vector (x)
- if (std (x) == 0)
- t = zeros (size (x));
- else
- t = (x - mean (x)) / std (x);
- endif
- elseif is_matrix (x)
- l = ones (rows (x), 1);
- t = x - l * mean (x);
- t = t ./ (l * max ([(std (t)); (! any (t))]));
- else
- error ("studentize: x must be a vector or a matrix.");
- endif
-
- endfunction