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std

MATLAB std function

Description

Computes the standard deviation of the values of x.

Usage

std(x, flag=0)

Arguments

`x`	numeric vector or matrix
`flag`	numeric scalar. If `0`, selects unbiased algorithm. If `1`, selects biased algorithm (currently unsupported).

Details

Simply invokes sd.

Value

Return value depends on argument x. If vector, returns the standard deviation. If matrix, returns vector containing the standard deviation of each column.

Author(s)

P. Roebuck proebuck@mdanderson.org

Examples

std(1:2) ^ 2

matlab

MATLAB emulation package

v1.0.2

Artistic-2.0

Authors

P. Roebuck

Initial release

2014-06-19

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