[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #33541] corrcoef Matlab compatibility issue

[Rik]

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #33541 (project octave):

I just took a look at the Matlab function as well and I dislike their
interpretation of corrcoef(x,y) quite a bit.  The correlation coefficient
between two vectors of observations is a single number.  Mathworks interprets
corrcoef(x,y) as corrcoef ([x y]) which is a correlation coefficient matrix. 
For a vector the elements on the diagonals are obviously 1 because each vector
x,y correlates with itself and the off-diagonal element is what I would call
the correlation coefficient.  Besides compatability, can someone make a
compelling argument for why this behavior is better than the current Octave
behavior?

If necessary, it is trivial to achieve compatibility manually by calling
corrcoef ([x y]).  I would have users do this if they really want this
behavior.


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