Good point. I tried to use this search box in Juila manual, but get nothing. In R and Matlab, the search would return the function sd/std.
I think, not only the "words" in Julia documentation is needed to improved, but also the search engine. On Friday, February 12, 2016 at 12:52:19 AM UTC-8, Michele Zaffalon wrote: > > 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] <javascript:>> > 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] >> <javascript:>> 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. >> >> >> >> >> > >
