sym.P: Calculate the symmetric column stochastic matrix
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Used to turn the asymmetric column stochastic matrix into a symmetric column stochastic matric.

sym.P(x)

`x`	`x` is a column stochastic matrix

The function calculates the symmetric matrix from the asymmetric column stochastic matrix, leaving the diagonal unchanged and averaging m[i,j] and m[j,i] as (m[i,j]+m[j,i])/2. The computed average substitutes each pair of values in the new symmetric column stochastic matrix.

Returns a matrix.

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Federico C. F. Calboli federico.calboli@helsinki.fi

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