Re: Build in functions (exprnd)

[Rik]

On 11/04/2018 08:58 AM, Michael D Godfrey wrote:
>> On 11/4/18 3:01 PM, Mohammed Elmusrati wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> We had a complex simulation program to assist systems’ reliability.
>> Anyhow the code was written in Octave 4.0.2. We have observed that the
>> same code does not work on Octave 4.4.1 and the reason that ( 'exprnd’
>> undefined)!  This function generates random numbers with exponential
>> distribution. Is it a bug or the function has been removed from the new
>> version of Octave?
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>> Mohammed Elmusrati 
>
> This got answered, but there appears to be no mention in the current
> Manual about the
> moves of functions to packages on sourceforge.

It was mentioned in the NEWS file for 4.4.

 ** The following statistical functions have been moved from core
    Octave to the statistics package available from Octave Forge.

followed by the list of functions which includes exprnd.

--Rik