std {matlab}R Documentation

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 integer logical. If 0, selects unbiased algorithm. If 1, selects biased algorithm (currently unsupported).

Details

Simply invokes stats::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, roebuck@mdanderson.org

Examples

std(1:2) ^ 2

[Package matlab version 0.7-7 Index]