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20## @deftypefn {Function File} {} normal_pdf (@var{x}, @var{m}, @var{v})
21## For each element of @var{x}, compute the probability density function
22## (PDF) at @var{x} of the normal distribution with mean @var{m} and
25## Default values are @var{m} = 0, @var{v} = 1.
28## Author: TT <Teresa.Twaroch@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
29## Description: PDF of the normal distribution
31## Deprecated in version 3.0
33function pdf = normal_pdf (varargin)
35 persistent warned = false;
38 warning ("Octave:deprecated-function",
39 "normal_pdf is obsolete and will be removed from a future version of Octave; please use normpdf instead");
43 varargin{3} = sqrt (varargin{3});
46 pdf = normpdf (varargin{:});
