Octave supports various helpful statistical functions. Many are useful as initial steps to prepare a data set for further analysis. Others provide different measures from those of the basic descriptive statistics.
If x is a vector, subtract its mean. If x is a matrix, do the above for each column. If the optional argument dim is given, operate along this dimension.
See also: zscore.
If x is a vector, subtract its mean and divide by its standard deviation.
If x is a matrix, do the above along the first non-singleton dimension. If the optional argument dim is given, operate along this dimension.
See also: center.
Produce histogram counts.
When x is a vector, the function counts the number of elements of x that fall in the histogram bins defined by edges. This must be a vector of monotonically increasing values that define the edges of the histogram bins. n
(k)
contains the number of elements in x for which edges(k) <=
x<
edges(k+1)
. The final element of n contains the number of elements of x exactly equal to the last element of edges.When x is an N-dimensional array, the computation is carried out along dimension dim. If not specified dim defaults to the first non-singleton dimension.
When a second output argument is requested an index matrix is also returned. The idx matrix has the same size as x. Each element of idx contains the index of the histogram bin in which the corresponding element of x was counted.
See also: hist.
Compute the binomial coefficient or all combinations of n. If n is a scalar then, calculate the binomial coefficient of n and k, defined as
/ \ | n | n (n-1) (n-2) ... (n-k+1) n! | | = ------------------------- = --------- | k | k! k! (n-k)! \ /If n is a vector generate all combinations of the elements of n, taken k at a time, one row per combination. The resulting c has size
[nchoosek (length (
n),
k),
k]
.
nchoosek
works only for non-negative integer arguments; usebincoeff
for non-integer scalar arguments and for using vector arguments to compute many coefficients at once.See also: bincoeff.
Generate all permutations of v, one row per permutation. The result has size
factorial (
n) *
n, where n is the length of v.As an example,
perms([1, 2, 3])
returns the matrix1 2 3 2 1 3 1 3 2 2 3 1 3 1 2 3 2 1
Return the ranks of x along the first non-singleton dimension adjusted for ties. If the optional argument dim is given, operate along this dimension.
Count the upward runs along the first non-singleton dimension of x of length 1, 2, ..., n-1 and greater than or equal to n.
If the optional argument dim is given then operate along this dimension.
Find the lengths of all sequences of common values. Return the vector of lengths and the value that was repeated.
runlength ([2, 2, 0, 4, 4, 4, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1]) ⇒ [2, 1, 3, 1, 4]
For each component of p, return the probit (the quantile of the standard normal distribution) of p.
For each component of p, return the logit of p defined as
logit(p) = log (p / (1-p))See also: logistic_cdf.
Return the complementary log-log function of x, defined as
cloglog(x) = - log (- log (x))