Hello,

Attached is the updated shorter "corr2cov.m".  Does it look better for the 
financial package?  Thanks!

Best regards,

Hong Yu



> From: hyu0...@hotmail.com
> To: so...@hauberg.org
> CC: octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net; hyu0...@hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: [OctDev] first try of improving financial package and related
> Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 18:03:15 -0700
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Thanks!  Will update asap.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Hong Yu
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: SørenHauberg
> Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2011 2:54 AM
> To: YuHong
> Cc: octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [OctDev] first try of improving financial package and related
> 
> søn, 11 09 2011 kl. 17:34 -0700, skrev YuHong:
> > I wish to add new functions to the financial package in Octave.  The
> > base is MatLab’s financial toolbox manual.  Attached is my first try
> > of coding the ‘corr2cov’ function.  Basically corr2cov() calculates
> > and returns covariance matrix from standard deviation and correlations
> > input.
> >
> > Wish for suggestions.  Thanks a lot!
> 
> Can't you write
> 
>   ret = corr .* (sigma * sigma.');
> 
> instead of
> 
>   ret = corr;
> 
>   csize = size(corr);
> 
>   for i = 1:csize(1)
>     for j = 1:csize(2)
>       ret(i,j) *= sigma(i) * sigma(j);
>     endfor
>   endfor
> 
> (or something like that) ?
> 
> Søren
> 
                                          
## Copyright (C) 2011 		Hong Yu
##
## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
## your option) any later version.
##
## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
## General Public License for more details.
##
## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
## along with this program; see the file COPYING.  If not, see
## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} corr2cov (@var{sigma}, @var{corr})
## Returns the covariance value or matrix.
##
##
## Note that the rate @var{r} is specified as a fraction (i.e., 0.05,
## not 5 percent).
## @seealso{corrcoef, cov, cov2corr, ewstats, std}
## @end deftypefn

## Author: Hong Yu <hyu0...@hotmail.com>
## Description: Convert standard deviation and correlation to covariance

function ret = corr2cov (sigma, corr)

  if ( nargin != 2 )
    print_usage ();
  endif

  ssize = size(sigma);
  csize = size(corr);

  if ( ssize(1) != 1 )
    error ("sigma: must be 1xn");
  elseif ( csize(1) != csize(2) )
    error("corr: must be nxn");
  elseif ( ssize(2) != csize(1) )
    error("sigma: must be 1xn \ncorr: must be nxn");    
  endif

  ret = corr .* (sigma' * sigma);

endfunction

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