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first hg version after svn
author wolffd
date Tue, 10 Feb 2015 15:05:51 +0000
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wolffd@0 1 function M = sample_gaussian(mu, Sigma, N)
wolffd@0 2 % SAMPLE_GAUSSIAN Draw N random row vectors from a Gaussian distribution
wolffd@0 3 % samples = sample_gaussian(mean, cov, N)
wolffd@0 4
wolffd@0 5 if nargin==2
wolffd@0 6 N = 1;
wolffd@0 7 end
wolffd@0 8
wolffd@0 9 % If Y = CX, Var(Y) = C Var(X) C'.
wolffd@0 10 % So if Var(X)=I, and we want Var(Y)=Sigma, we need to find C. s.t. Sigma = C C'.
wolffd@0 11 % Since Sigma is psd, we have Sigma = U D U' = (U D^0.5) (D'^0.5 U').
wolffd@0 12
wolffd@0 13 mu = mu(:);
wolffd@0 14 n=length(mu);
wolffd@0 15 [U,D,V] = svd(Sigma);
wolffd@0 16 M = randn(n,N);
wolffd@0 17 M = (U*sqrt(D))*M + mu*ones(1,N); % transform each column
wolffd@0 18 M = M';
wolffd@0 19