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From: "Rick Rosson" <rrosson@mathworks.com>
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Subject: Re: Standard Deviation Calculation: Out of Memory?
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:06:39 -0400
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"stephen " <huangj5@nationwide.com> wrote in message 
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> Hi,
>
> I was trying to calculate the standard deviation of a 3,000,000 by 9 
> matrix using function "std". But I got an "Out of Memory" error message. 
> Is it because Matlab couldn't handle stdev calculation if the underlying 
> data is too big?
>
> Thanks,
> Stephen