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xcorr
Computes discrete auto or cross correlation
Calling Sequence
[c [,lagindex]] = xcorr(x [,maxlags [,scaling]]) [c [,lagindex]] = xcorr(x,y [,maxlags [,scaling]])
Parameters
- x
- a vector of real or complex floating point numbers. 
- y
- a vector of real or complex floating point numbers. The default value is - x.
- maxlags
- a scalar with integer value greater than 1. The default value is - n. Where- nis the maximum of the- xand- yvector length.
- scaling
- a character string with possible value: - "biased",- "unbiased",- "coeff",- "none". The default value is- "none".
- c
- a vector of real or complex floating point numbers with same orientation as - x.
- lagindex
- a row vector, containing the lags index corresponding to the - cvalues.
Description
- c=xcorr(x)computes the un-normalized discrete auto correlation: and return in and return in- cthe sequence of auto correlation lags with with- nis the length of- x
- xcorr(x,y)computes the un-normalized discrete cross correlation: and return in and return in- cthe sequence of auto correlation lags with with- nis the maximum of- xand- ylength's.
If the maxlags argument is given
            xcorr returns in c the sequence of
            auto correlation lags  . If
. If
            maxlags is greater than length(x),
            the first and last values of c are zero.
The scaling argument decribes how
             is normalized before being returned in
 is normalized before being returned in
            c: 
            
- "biased":c= /n.
- "unbiased":c= ./(n-(-maxlags:maxlags)).
- "coeff":c= /(norm(x)*norm(y)).
Remark
The corr function computes the "biased" covariance ofx
        
        and
        
        y
        
        and only return in
        
        c
        
        the sequence of auto correlation lags
        
         .
        
        .Method
This function computes using
 using
            ifft(fft(x).*conj(fft(y))).Examples
t = linspace(0, 100, 2000); y = 0.8 * sin(t) + 0.8 * sin(2 * t); [c, ind] = xcorr(y, "biased"); plot(ind, c)

Authors
- Serge Steer, INRIA
Used Functions
History
| Version | Description | 
| 5.4.0 | xcorr added. | 
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