Function File: [mn, v] = normstat (m, s)

Compute mean and variance of the normal distribution.

Arguments

• m is the mean of the normal distribution
• s is the standard deviation of the normal distribution. s must be positive

m and s must be of common size or one of them must be scalar

Return values

• mn is the mean of the normal distribution
• v is the variance of the normal distribution

Examples

m = 1:6;
s = 0:0.2:1;
[mn, v] = normstat (m, s)

[mn, v] = normstat (0, s)

References

1. Wendy L. Martinez and Angel R. Martinez. Computational Statistics Handbook with MATLAB. Appendix E, pages 547-557, Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2001.
2. Athanasios Papoulis. Probability, Random Variables, and Stochastic Processes. McGraw-Hill, New York, second edition, 1984.

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