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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 = 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