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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.
#
# 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 = 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