Syntax
Description
C = cov(x)
where x
is a vector returns the variance of the vector elements. For matrices where each row is an observation and each column a variable, cov(x)
is the covariance matrix. diag(cov(x))
is a vector of variances for each column, and sqrt(diag(cov(x)))
is a vector of standard deviations.
C = cov(x,y),
where x
and y
are column vectors of equal length, is equivalent to cov([x y])
.
Remarks
cov
removes the mean from each column before calculating the result.
The covariance function is defined as
where is the mathematical expectation and .
Examples
Consider A = [-1 1 2 ; -2 3 1 ; 4 0 3]
. To obtain a vector of variances for each column of A
:
Compare vector v
with covariance matrix C
:
The diagonal elements C(i,i)
represent the variances for the columns of A
. The off-diagonal elements C(i,j)
represent the covariances of columns i
and j
.
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