coursera-ml-007-exercises/ex1/computeCostMulti.m

function J = computeCostMulti(X, y, theta)
%COMPUTECOSTMULTI Compute cost for linear regression with multiple variables
%   J = COMPUTECOSTMULTI(X, y, theta) computes the cost of using theta as the
%   parameter for linear regression to fit the data points in X and y

% Initialize some useful values
m = length(y); % number of training examples

% You need to return the following variables correctly
J = 0;

% ====================== YOUR CODE HERE ======================
% Instructions: Compute the cost of a particular choice of theta
%               You should set J to the cost.

predictions = X * theta;
errors = predictions - y;
squared_errors = errors .^ 2;

J = 1/(2*m) * sum(squared_errors);

% =========================================================================

end