But the original point is still valid: using the search box in the official documentation page http://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.4, searching for "standard deviation" does not bring up any useful hit, despite the fact that Base.std is fairly well documented and contains the words standard deviation. Is there a reason why it should work at the REPL but not in the webpage?
On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 9:25 AM, Mauro <[email protected]> wrote: > Also at the Julia REPL: > > julia> apropos("standard deviation") > randn! > stdm > std > randn > > help?> std > search: std stdm STDIN STDOUT STDERR setdiff setdiff! hist2d hist2d! > stride strides StridedArray StridedVector StridedMatrix StridedVecOrMat > redirect_stdin > > std(v[, region]) > > Compute the sample standard deviation of a vector or array v, > optionally along dimensions in region. The algorithm returns an estimator > of the generative > distribution's standard deviation under the assumption that each > entry of v is an IID drawn from that generative distribution. This > computation is equivalent to > calculating sqrt(sum((v - mean(v)).^2) / (length(v) - 1)). Note: > Julia does not ignore NaN values in the computation. For applications > requiring the handling of > missing data, the DataArray package is recommended. > > Having said this, documentation always needs improvements and is > certainly not on Matlab's level of completeness. Please contribute > where you find it lacking. See > > https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#improving-documentation > > > On Fri, 2016-02-12 at 09:18, NotSoRecentConvert <[email protected]> wrote: > > You can even download the entire thing as a PDF, HTML, or EPUB if you > want > > to highlight, annotate, or bookmark your most searched functions. Look in > > the lower right of the page for "v: latest" and click it for more > options. > > > > On Friday, February 12, 2016 at 8:03:27 AM UTC+1, Lutfullah Tomak wrote: > >> > >> There is this one > >> > >> http://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.4/stdlib/math/#Base.std > >> > >> Instead of google, I use this manual for search. > >> > >> >
