Re: statistics functions and NA

[CdeMills]

Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso-2 wrote
> 
> On 20 March 2012 15:54, marco atzeri <marco.atzeri@> wrote:
>> On 3/20/2012 7:03 PM, CdeMills wrote:
> 
>>> R as a specific parameter in this case, na.rm which,, when true,
>>> means to skip over NA values. What do you think about adding such
>>> behaviour to mean, std, val and similar ?
> 
>> you are probably looking for the NaN package
>>
>> http://octave.sourceforge.net/nan/index.html
> 
> Except, as previously flamed, those functions *overwrite* the Octave
> functions. If you think you might still want NaNs in order to indicate
> a problematic computation, you can also use nanmean, nanstd, and
> similar, from the stats package.
> 
> 
Yeah, I wanted something which was in phase with the Octave tree. Now my
intent was to operate some distinction between NA (missing values) and NaN
(results from wrong computation).

Pascal

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