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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
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- #
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- # for more details.
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- # along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free
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-
- function retval = mahalanobis (X, Y)
-
- # usage: mahalanobis (X, Y)
- #
- # Returns Mahalanobis' D-square distance between the multivariate
- # samples X and Y, which must have the same number of components
- # (columns), but may have a different number of observations (rows).
-
- # Written by Friedrich Leisch (leisch@ci.tuwien.ac.at) July 1993.
- # Dept of Probability Theory and Statistics TU Wien, Austria.
-
- if (nargin != 2)
- usage ("mahalanobis (X, Y)");
- endif
-
- [xr, xc] = size (X);
- [yr, yc] = size (Y);
-
- if (xc != yc)
- error ("mahalanobis: X and Y must have the same number of columns.");
- endif
-
- Xm = sum (X) / xr;
- Ym = sum (Y) / yr;
-
- X = X - ones (xr, 1) * Xm;
- Y = Y - ones (yr, 1) * Ym;
-
- W = (X' * X + Y' * Y) / (xr + yr - 2);
-
- Winv = inv (W);
-
- retval = (Xm - Ym) * Winv * (Xm - Ym)';
-
- endfunction
-