Re: functions for core statistics package

[Carnë Draug]

On 15 March 2018 at 16:34, Julien Bect <address@hidden> wrote:
> Le 15/03/2018 à 16:13, Carnë Draug a écrit :
>>
>> After the discussion at OctConf, I've looked at the forge statistics
>> package to see which ones would be included in the core package and
>> which ones we have to make a decision about.
>>
>> I have made four lists in the wiki [1] for functions that should be
>> ready to go, and functions that need a decision.
>>
>> Carnë
>>
>> [1] https://wiki.octave.org/Statistics_package#Core_package
>
>
> Hi Carnë,
>
>
> 1) Concerning "princomp", here is what I see in R2017b :
>
>>> help princomp
>  princomp Principal Components Analysis (PCA).
>     princomp will be removed in a future release. Use PCA instead.
>
>     Calls to princomp are routed to PCA.
>
>     [coeff, score, latent, tsquare] = princomp(x,econFlag)
>
>     See also: pca
>
>     Reference page for princomp
>
> But perhaps has it really been removed in R2018a ?

I don't think so.  Hence the note 'matlab says that the function has
been removed but likely is a lie'.  I think we should keep it around
too.

> 2) Concerning "anderson_darling_test", the corresponding Matlab function is
> "adtest", so perhaps should it be in your second list ?

Done.  Thank you