I have updated the Numeric manual on the web site. I added
some to the MLab section to reflect the axis arguments that were added some
time ago but never reflected in the manual. The manual also documents a change
to the behavior of the attribute “masked” in package MA. The
document corresponds to CVS now rather than the last release. I hope to release
Numeric-20.2 sometime soon but want more exercise of the MA and MLab changes
first.
I changed MLab.mean to return a floating point result when
the argument is integer. I’m sorry if this breaks anything but the prior
behavior has no mathematical meaning and then, worse, was being used by std to
get the wrong standard deviation too. I changed std to work for axis > 0, as
it was previously broken.
I don’t own Matlab and so maintaining a package that
emulates something I don’t have makes me nervous. I wish one of the other
developers with more knowledge in this area would pitch in.
Thanks to Chris Barker and others who sent in typos and
suggestions.