[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#481484: ITP: octave-nan -- handles data with and without missing values in Octave

[Rafael Laboissiere]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Debian Octave Group <pkg-octave-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>

* Package name    : octave-nan
  Version         : 1.0.6
  Upstream Author : Alois Schlögl
* URL             : http://octave.sourceforge.net/nan/index.html
* License         : GPL2+
  Programming Lang: Octave
  Description     : handles data with and without missing values in Octave

Features of the NaN package for Octave:

    o Implement statistical tools
    o NaN`s are treated as missing values
    o less but more powerful functions (no nan-FUN needed)
    o fixes known bugs
    o compatible to Matlab and Octave
    o easy to use, compatible to existing software
    o supports DIM argument
    o supports unbiased estimation
    o significance test, confidence intervals and Spearman`s rank
      correlation included in CORRCOEF. 
    o CORRCOEF checks whether NaN's (missing values) are correlated with data

This package will be maintained by the DOG (Debian Octave Group) and will
soon appear in the SVN repository at Alioth [1].

[1] http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-octave/octave-forge-pkgs/octave-nan
  
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Rafael Laboissiere, on behalf of the DOG