Hello,

Thanks!  Updated 'corr2cov.m' as attached.  Does it look better for the 
financial package?  And how to add new function to an existing package?  

Best regards,

Hong Yu


> 
> Looks good. I think you should do something to ensure that sigma is
> either a row or a column vector. You could add something like
> 
>   sigma = sigma (:);
> 
> after the dimensionality tests.
> 
> 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 ( csize(1) != csize(2) )
    error("sigma: must be 1xn \ncorr: must be nxn");
  elseif ( ssize(1) != 1 )
    error("sigma: must be 1xn \ncorr: must be nxn");
  elseif ( ssize(2) < csize(1) ) 
    error("sigma: must be 1xn \ncorr: must be nxn"); 
  endif

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

endfunction

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