Converts between a hollow (diagonal filled with zeros), square, and symmetric matrix and a vector of the lower triangular part.

Its target application is the conversion of the vector returned by pdist into a distance matrix. It performs the opposite operation if input is a matrix.

If x is a numeric or logical vector, its number of elements must fit into the triangular part of a matrix (main diagonal excluded). In other words, numel (x) = n * (n - 1) / 2 for some integer n. The resulting matrix will be n by n.

If x is a numeric or logical distance matrix, it must be square and the diagonal entries of x must all be zeros. If x is not symmetric, only the lower triangular part is used.

The second argument is used to specify the output type in case the distance input is a scalar. Accepted values are 'tomatrix' (or 'tom') and 'tovector' (or 'tov'). If not specified, it defaults to "tomatrix" otherwise.

See also: pdist

Source Code: squareform