Re: autocov and autocor

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> In this case, where there is no clear cut standard, my leaning is to follow
> Matlab; at least we can all be wrong together.  Still, I think overall
> these functions are too esoteric and should be removed from the core.  The
> alternative would be to patch them up to be the equivalent of xcov and
> xcorr and that seems like a lot of work; particularly, as the Octave-Forge
> signal package already implements all the options for those two functions.

There might be several alternative implementations of cross correlations
scattered throughout the 'forge packages.  I think TSA has one too, optim might,
etc. (I am sure glad that there is no attempt to manage the octave library --
much nicer ! ;)