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+## Copyright (C) 1996-2012 Kurt Hornik
+##
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+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {[@var{pval}, @var{tsq}] =} hotelling_test_2 (@var{x}, @var{y})
+## For two samples @var{x} from multivariate normal distributions with
+## the same number of variables (columns), unknown means and unknown
+## equal covariance matrices, test the null hypothesis @code{mean
+## (@var{x}) == mean (@var{y})}.
+##
+## Hotelling's two-sample @math{T^2} is returned in @var{tsq}. Under the null,
+## @tex
+## $$
+## {n_x+n_y-p-1) T^2 \over p(n_x+n_y-2)}
+## $$
+## @end tex
+## @ifnottex
+##
+## @example
+## (n_x+n_y-p-1) T^2 / (p(n_x+n_y-2))
+## @end example
+##
+## @end ifnottex
+## @noindent
+## has an F distribution with @math{p} and @math{n_x+n_y-p-1} degrees of
+## freedom, where @math{n_x} and @math{n_y} are the sample sizes and
+## @math{p} is the number of variables.
+##
+## The p-value of the test is returned in @var{pval}.
+##
+## If no output argument is given, the p-value of the test is displayed.
+## @end deftypefn
+
+## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@wu-wien.ac.at>
+## Description: Compare means of two multivariate normals
+
+function [pval, Tsq] = hotelling_test_2 (x, y)
+
+ if (nargin != 2)
+ print_usage ();
+ endif
+
+ if (isvector (x))
+ n_x = length (x);
+ if (! isvector (y))
+ error ("hotelling_test_2: if X is a vector, Y must also be a vector");
+ else
+ n_y = length (y);
+ p = 1;
+ endif
+ elseif (ismatrix (x))
+ [n_x, p] = size (x);
+ [n_y, q] = size (y);
+ if (p != q)
+ error ("hotelling_test_2: X and Y must have the same number of columns");
+ endif
+ else
+ error ("hotelling_test_2: X and Y must be matrices (or vectors)");
+ endif
+
+ d = mean (x) - mean (y);
+ S = ((n_x - 1) * cov (x) + (n_y - 1) * cov (y)) / (n_x + n_y - 2);
+ Tsq = (n_x * n_y / (n_x + n_y)) * d * (S \ d');
+ pval = 1 - fcdf ((n_x + n_y - p - 1) * Tsq / (p * (n_x + n_y - 2)),
+ p, n_x + n_y - p - 1);
+
+ if (nargout == 0)
+ printf (" pval: %g\n", pval);
+ endif
+
+endfunction