Indeed. Thanks for your suggestions.
To elaborate briefly. The ``quantile`` function offers 9 types of methods.
The ``sd`` function only one. The ``mad`` function offers ways to tweak the
bias correction. The ``sd`` function doesn't.
Are there good reasons against adding features to ``sd``? after
Oh thanks, missed that. I expected the explanation to be near the top under
"Description." I may have scanned for the word "sample", which doesn't
appear. I could have searched harder. Apologies for the noise.
On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 5:59 PM S Ellison wrote:
> > As far as I can tell, the manual
I cannot file suggestions on bugzilla, so writing here.
As far as I can tell, the manual help page for ``sd``
?sd
does not explicitly mention that the formula for the standard deviation is
the so-called "Bessel-corrected" formula (divide by n-1 rather than n).
I suggest it should be stated near
