Re: Vector approach to row margin frequencies

[ws]

> I would love to now get the row frequencies avoiding a while loop, something 
> like F=X./S, but that doesn't work (though it seems somehow consistent -- I 
> realize that we don't recycle vectors in Octave/ Mat* ) ....

Feeling a little silly, here is an answer to my question:

rowMargins =  bar ./ repmat(sum(bar,2),[1 columns(bar)])
colMargins =  bar ./ repmat(sum(bar,1),[rows(bar) 1])

Duh, sorry about the noise, hopefully some poor fool will be helped by this....