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+## Copyright (C) 1995-2012 Friedrich Leisch
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
+##
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+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {} autocov (@var{x}, @var{h})
+## Return the autocovariances from lag 0 to @var{h} of vector @var{x}.
+## If @var{h} is omitted, all autocovariances are computed.
+## If @var{x} is a matrix, the autocovariances of each column are
+## computed.
+## The particular algorithm used is from the field of statistics and
+## differs from the definition used in signal processing.
+## @end deftypefn
+
+## Author: FL <Friedrich.Leisch@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
+## Description: Compute autocovariances
+
+## Deprecated in version 3.4
+
+function retval = autocov (X, h)
+ persistent warned = false;
+ if (! warned)
+ warned = true;
+ warning ("Octave:deprecated-function",
+ "autocov is obsolete and will be removed from a future version of Octave; See the Octave-Forge signal package and the function xcov for a replacement");
+ endif
+
+ [n, c] = size (X);
+
+ if (isvector (X))
+ n = length (X);
+ c = 1;
+ X = reshape (X, n, 1);
+ endif
+
+ X = center (X);
+
+ if (nargin == 1)
+ h = n - 1;
+ endif
+
+ retval = zeros (h + 1, c);
+
+ for i = 0 : h
+ retval(i+1, :) = diag (X(i+1:n, :).' * conj (X(1:n-i, :))).' / n;
+ endfor
+
+endfunction