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+## Copyright (C) 2002 Etienne Grossmann <etienne@egdn.net>
+##
+## 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/>.
+
+## [cv,wx] = best_dir_cov(x,a,sx,wd)
+##
+## x D x P :
+## a P x W : Same as in best_dir, but sx is compulsory.
+## sx P x 1 :
+##
+## wd (W+D) x 1 : ML estimate of [w;d]
+##
+## cv (W+D)x(W+D) : Covariance of the ML estimator at [w;d]
+##
+## wx (W+D)x(P*D) : derivatives of ML estimate wrt to observations
+##
+
+## Author: Etienne Grossmann <etienne@egdn.net>
+## Last modified: Setembro 2002
+
+function [cv,wx] = best_dir_cov(x,a,sx,wd)
+
+[D,P] = size (x);
+W = columns (a);
+WD = prod (size (wd));
+
+ # Check dimensions etc
+if prod(size(sx)) != P
+ error ("sx has %d != %d elements", prod (size (sx)), P);
+end
+if WD != W+D
+ error ("wd has %d != %d elements", WD, W+D);
+end
+if rows (a) != P
+ error ("a has %d != %d rows", rows (a), P);
+end
+if any (sx <= 0)
+ error ("sx has some nonpositive elements");
+end
+
+sx = sx(:) ;
+wd = wd(:) ;
+
+w = wd(1:W);
+d = wd(W+1:WD);
+
+isig = diag(1./sx) ; # Inverse of covariance matrix.
+
+ # All derivatives are 1/2 of true value.
+
+dsw = [zeros(W,1);d]; # Derivative of constraint |d|^2=1
+
+ # Inverse of Hessian with side blocks
+#keyboard
+if 0, # Readable code, bigger matrices
+ d2ww = inv([ [-a';x]*isig*[-a,x'], dsw ; dsw' , 0 ]) ;
+
+else # Unreadable, smaller matrices
+ ## tmp = (1./sx)*ones(1,WD);
+ d2ww = inv( [ ([-a,x'].*((1./sx)*ones(1,WD)))'*[-a,x'], dsw ; dsw', 0 ]) ;
+end
+## if any(abs(D2ww(:)-d2ww(:))>sqrt(eps)),
+## printf("Whoa!! %g",max(abs(D2ww(:)-d2ww(:)))) ;
+## end
+
+ # 2nd Derivatives wrt. wd and x
+
+## d2wx = zeros(WD+1,D*P); # (padded with a row of zeros)
+d2wx = zeros(WD,D*P);
+ # Easy : wrt. w and x
+d2wx(1:W,:) = - kron(d',((1./sx)*ones(1,W))'.*a') ;
+
+x = x'(:) ;
+
+y = eye(D); # tmp
+tmp = zeros(D,D*P) ;
+ # wrt. d and x
+for i=1:D,
+
+ ## d2wx(W+i,(i-1)*P+1:i*P) = \
+ ## 2*x'*(kron(y(i,:))
+ d2wx(W+i,:) = \
+ 2*x'*kron(y(i,:),kron(d,isig)) - \
+ w'*a'*isig*kron(y(i,:),eye(P)) ;
+end
+
+## wx = d2ww*d2wx ;
+
+wx = d2ww(1:WD,1:WD)*d2wx(1:WD,:) ;
+cv = ((wx.*kron(ones(WD,D),sx'))*wx') ;
+
+## cv = (wx*kron(eye(D),isig)*wx')(1:WD,1:WD) ;
+# if 0,
+# cv = (wx*kron(eye(D),diag(sx))*wx')(1:WD,1:WD) ;
+# elseif 0
+# cv = ((wx.*kron(ones(WD+1,D),sx'))*wx')(1:WD,1:WD) ;
+# end
+# if any(abs(cv2(:)-cv(:))>sqrt(eps)),
+# printf("whoa!! b_d_cov (2) : %f\n",max(abs(cv2(:)-cv(:))));
+# keyboard
+# end
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+endfunction
+