[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #62395] Compatability feature request - std and var optionally return mean as 2nd output

[Nicholas Jankowski]

URL:
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                 Summary: Compatability feature request - std and var
optionally return mean as 2nd output
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: nrjank
            Submitted on: Mon 02 May 2022 04:43:08 PM EDT
                Category: Octave Function
                Severity: 2 - Minor
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Feature Request
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Nicholas Jankowski
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
                 Release: dev
         Discussion Lock: Any
        Operating System: Any

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Details:

noticed that matlab std and var have beed modified in v2022a such that calling
as:


[S, M] = std (...)
or
[V, M] = var (...)


will return the mean used to calculate the std/var (or weighted mean if
weighting was requested).

since std was rewritten as wrapper to var, and var explicitly calculates and
assigns mu and the weights, it shouldn't be overly complex to return it as an
optional second argument in both functions.





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