Re: statistics functions and NA

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On 20 March 2012 15:54, marco atzeri <address@hidden> 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.

- Jordi G. H.