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- //-------------------------------------------------------------------//
-
- // Syntax: std ( A )
-
- // Description:
-
- // Compute the Standard Deviation. For a vector (row-matrix), std()
- // returns the standard deviation. For a MxN matrix, std() returns a
- // row-matrix containing the standard deviation of each column.
-
- // See Also: mean, rand, srand
- //-------------------------------------------------------------------//
-
- std = function(x)
- {
- if(class(x) != "num") { error("std() requires NUMERICAL input"); }
-
- m = x.nr;
- if( m == 1 )
- {
- return sqrt( sum( (x - mean(x)) .^ 2 ) / (x.nc - 1) );
- else
- for( i in 1:x.nc) {
- s[i] = sqrt( sum( (x[;i] - mean(x[;i])) .^ 2 ) / (x.nr - 1) );
- }
- return s;
- }
- };
-