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+## Copyright (C) 2001 Paul Kienzle
+##
+## 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; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{qidx} = } quantiz (@var{x}, @var{table})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {[@var{qidx}, @var{q}] = } quantiz (@var{x}, @var{table}, @var{codes})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {[ @var{qidx}, @var{q}, @var{d}] = } quantiz (@var{...})
+##
+## Quantization of an arbitrary signal relative to a paritioning.
+##
+## @table @code
+## @item qidx = quantiz(x, table)
+## Determine position of x in strictly monotonic table. The first
+## interval, using index 0, corresponds to x <= table(1).
+## Subsequent intervals are table(i-1) < x <= table(i).
+##
+## @item [qidx, q] = quantiz(x, table, codes)
+## Associate each interval of the table with a code. Use codes(1)
+## for x <= table(1) and codes(n+1) for table(n) < x <= table(n+1).
+##
+## @item [qidx, q, d] = quantiz(...)
+## Compute distortion as mean squared distance of x from the
+## corresponding quantization values.
+## @end table
+## @end deftypefn
+
+function [qidx, q, d] = quantiz (x, table, codes)
+ if (nargin < 2 || nargin > 3)
+ usage("[qidx, q, d] = quantiz(x, table, codes)");
+ endif
+
+ qidx = length(table) - lookup(flipud(table(:)), x(:));
+ if (nargin > 2 && nargout > 1)
+ q = codes(qidx + 1);
+ endif
+ if (nargout > 2)
+ table = [table(1) ; table(:) ];
+ d = sumsq (x(:) - q(:)) / length(x);
+ endif
+endfunction