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+## Copyright (C) 2009-2012 Tony Richardson, Jaroslav Hajek
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
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+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {} polyaffine (@var{f}, @var{mu})
+## Return the coefficients of the polynomial vector @var{f} after an affine
+## transformation. If @var{f} is the vector representing the polynomial f(x),
+## then @code{@var{g} = polyaffine (@var{f}, @var{mu})} is the vector
+## representing:
+##
+## @example
+## g(x) = f( (x - @var{mu}(1)) / @var{mu}(2) )
+## @end example
+##
+## @seealso{polyval, polyfit}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+
+function g = polyaffine (f, mu)
+
+ if (nargin != 2)
+ print_usage ();
+ endif
+
+ if (! isvector (f))
+ error ("polyaffine: F must be a vector");
+ endif
+
+ if (! isvector (mu) || length (mu) != 2)
+ error ("polyaffine: MU must be a two-element vector");
+ endif
+
+ lf = length (f);
+
+ ## Ensure that f is a row vector
+ if (rows (f) > 1)
+ f = f.';
+ endif
+
+ g = f;
+
+ ## Scale.
+ if (mu(2) != 1)
+ g = g ./ (mu(2) .^ (lf-1:-1:0));
+ endif
+
+ ## Translate.
+ if (mu(1) != 0)
+ w = (-mu(1)) .^ (0:lf-1);
+ ii = lf:-1:1;
+ g = g(ii) * (toeplitz (w) .* pascal (lf, -1));
+ g = g(ii);
+ endif
+
+endfunction
+
+
+%!demo
+%! f = [1/5 4/5 -7/5 -2];
+%! g = polyaffine (f, [1, 1.2]);
+%! x = linspace (-4, 4, 100);
+%! plot(x, polyval (f, x), x, polyval (g, x));
+%! legend ("original", "affine");
+%! axis ([-4 4 -3 5]);
+%! grid ("on");
+
+%!test
+%! f = [1/5 4/5 -7/5 -2];
+%! mu = [1, 1.2];
+%! g = polyaffine (f, mu);
+%! x = linspace (-4, 4, 100);
+%! assert (polyval (f, x, [], mu), polyval (g, x), 1e-10);
+