% -*- texinfo -*- % @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{avgbits} =} laverage (@var{codebook}, @var{problist}) % % Compute the average word length @code{SUM(@var{i} = 1:@var{N})* Li * Pi} % where codebook is a struct of strings, where each % string represents the codeword. Problist is the % probability values. For example % % @example % @group % x = @{'0','111','1110'@}; p=[0.1 0.5 0.4]; % laverage(x, p) @result{} ans = 3.2000 % @end group % @end example % @end deftypefn