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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 = kurtosis (x)
-
- # usage: kurtosis (x)
- #
- # If x is a vector of length N, return the kurtosis
- #
- # kurtosis(x) = N^(-1) std(x)^(-4) SUM_i (x(i)-mean(x))^4 - 3
- #
- # of x.
- #
- # If x is a matrix, return a row vector containing the kurtosis for each
- # column.
-
- # Written by KH (Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at) on Jul 29, 1994.
-
- if (nargin != 1)
- usage ("kurtosis (x)");
- endif
-
- if (is_vector (x))
- x = x - mean (x);
- if (! any (x))
- retval = 0;
- else
- retval = sum (x .^ 4) / (length (x) * std (x) ^ 4) - 3;
- endif
- elseif (is_matrix (x))
- [nr, nc] = size (x);
- x = x - ones (nr, 1) * mean (x);
- retval = zeros (1, nc);
- s = std (x);
- ind = find (s > 0);
- retval (ind) = sum (x (:, ind) .^ 4) ./ (nr * s (ind) .^ 4) - 3;
- else
- error ("kurtosis: x has to be a matrix or a vector.");
- endif
-
- endfunction
-