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- # Copyright (C) 1993, 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.
- #
- # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- # along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free
- # Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
-
- function retval = std (a)
-
- # usage: std (a)
- #
- # For vector arguments, std returns the standard deviation of the
- # values. For matrix arguments, std returns a row vector containing
- # the standard deviation for each column.
- #
- # See also: mean, median
-
- 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)
- tmp = sum (a);
- n = length (a);
- retval = sqrt ((n * sumsq (a) - tmp .* tmp) / (n * (n - 1)));
- elseif (nr > 1 && nc > 0)
- tmp = sum (a);
- retval = sqrt ((nr * sumsq (a) - tmp .* tmp) / (nr * (nr - 1)));
- else
- error ("mean: invalid matrix argument");
- endif
-
- endfunction
-