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NEWS: Announce change in definition of kurtosis function for Matlab compatibility. * NEWS: Announce that kurtosis no longer calculates "excess kurtosis". * scripts/statistics/base/kurtosis.m: Tweak docstring.
author Rik <rik@octave.org>
date Sat, 19 Oct 2013 07:33:59 -0700
parents 1efe4c65c5cf
children 031eaa90064e
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259 ** The glpk function has been modified to reflect changes in the GLPK 259 ** The glpk function has been modified to reflect changes in the GLPK
260 library. The "round" and "itcnt" options have been removed. The 260 library. The "round" and "itcnt" options have been removed. The
261 "relax" option has been replaced by the "rtest" option. The numeric 261 "relax" option has been replaced by the "rtest" option. The numeric
262 values of error codes and of some options have also changed. 262 values of error codes and of some options have also changed.
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264 ** The kurtosis function has changed definition to be compatible with
265 Matlab. It now returns the base kurtosis instead of the "excess kurtosis".
266 The old behavior can be had by changing scripts to normalize with -3.
267 "excess kurtosis" = kurtosis (x) - 3
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264 ** The default name of the Octave crash dump file is now 269 ** The default name of the Octave crash dump file is now
265 "octave-workspace" instead of "octave-core". 270 "octave-workspace" instead of "octave-core".
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267 ** A citation command has been added to display information on how to 272 ** A citation command has been added to display information on how to