fre, 10 10 2008 kl. 13:36 +0200, skrev Thomas Weber:
> Am Freitag, den 10.10.2008, 12:31 +0200 schrieb Søren Hauberg:
> > fre, 10 10 2008 kl. 12:20 +0200, skrev Søren Hauberg:
> > > > Mhm, my not totally new version of Matlab doesn't match this
> > > > description. Can someone with a current version please check what 
> > > > 
> > > >         mad(1,2,3)
> > > > gives?
> > > 
> > > It gives 0. However, it seems matlab actually support three input
> > > arguments (from the matlab mad help text):
> > > 
> > > MAD(X,FLAG,DIM) takes the MAD along dimension DIM of X.
> > > 
> > > It doesn't say what FLAG does, so I'm not sure how to treat it. It's
> > > worth mentioning that
> > > 
> > >   mad (1, 2, 3, 4)
> > > 
> > > gives an error.
> > 
> > Okay, it seems I was just not reading careful enough. If FLAG is zero
> > the absolute mean deviation is computed, whereas the absolute median
> > deviation is computed if it is one. I think the uploaded version does
> > this, but I'd appreciate if anybody would test it.
> 
> I think that Matlab's implementation deviates from its documentation:
> 
> flag = 0 => mean deviation
> flag != 0 => median deviation
> 
> Should we allow that, too?

Sure, why not? I guess a few people depend on this. I've made such a
change.

Søren


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