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- # Copyright (C) 1994, 1995 John W. Eaton
- #
- # This file is part of Octave.
- #
- # Octave 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.
- #
- # Octave 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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- # along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free
- # Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
-
- function retval = cov (X, Y)
-
- # usage: cov (X [, Y])
- #
- # If each row of X and Y is an observation and each column is a
- # variable, the (i,j)-th entry of cov(X, Y) is the covariance
- # between the i-th variable in X and the j-th variable in Y.
- # cov(X) is cov(X, X).
-
- # Written by Kurt Hornik (hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at) March 1993.
- # Dept of Probability Theory and Statistics TU Wien, Austria.
-
- if (nargin < 1 || nargin > 2)
- usage ("cov (X [, Y])");
- endif
-
- [Tx, kx] = size (X);
- if (nargin == 2)
- [Ty, ky] = size (Y);
- if (Tx != Ty)
- error ("cov: X and Y must have the same number of rows.");
- endif
- X = X - ones (Tx, 1) * sum (X) / Tx;
- Y = Y - ones (Tx, 1) * sum (Y) / Tx;
- retval = conj (X' * Y / (Tx - 1));
- elseif (nargin == 1)
- X = X - ones (Tx, 1) * sum (X) / Tx;
- retval = conj (X' * X / (Tx - 1));
- endif
-
- endfunction
-