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+## Copyright (C) 1995-2012 Friedrich Leisch
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
+##
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+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {} fractdiff (@var{x}, @var{d})
+## Compute the fractional differences @math{(1-L)^d x} where @math{L}
+## denotes the lag-operator and @math{d} is greater than -1.
+## @end deftypefn
+
+## Author: FL <Friedrich.Leisch@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
+## Description: Compute fractional differences
+
+function retval = fractdiff (x, d)
+
+ if (nargin != 2)
+ print_usage ();
+ endif
+
+ N = 100;
+
+ if (! isvector (x))
+ error ("fractdiff: X must be a vector");
+ endif
+
+ if (! isscalar (d))
+ error ("fractdiff: D must be a scalar");
+ endif
+
+
+ if (d >= 1)
+ for k = 1 : d
+ x = x(2 : length (x)) - x(1 : length (x) - 1);
+ endfor
+ endif
+
+ if (d > -1)
+
+ d = rem (d, 1);
+
+ if (d != 0)
+ n = (0 : N)';
+ w = real (gamma (-d+n) ./ gamma (-d) ./ gamma (n+1));
+ retval = fftfilt (w, x);
+ retval = retval(1 : length (x));
+ else
+ retval = x;
+ endif
+
+ else
+ error ("fractdiff: D must be > -1");
+
+ endif
+
+endfunction