Statistics package

The statistics package is part of the Octave Packages. Since version 1.5.0, the statistics package requires Octave version 6.1 or higher. From Octave v7.2 or later, you can install the latest statistics package (currently 1.5.3) with the following command:

pkg install -forge statistics

The following sections provide an overview of the functions available in the statistics package sorted alphabetically and arranged in groups similarly to the package's INDEX file.

Clustering

Available functions

The following table lists the functions available for clustering.

Function	Description
cluster	Define clusters from an agglomerative hierarchical cluster tree.
cmdscale	Classical multidimensional scaling of a matrix.
confusionmat	Compute a confusion matrix for classification problems.
cophenet	Compute the cophenetic correlation coefficient.
evalclusters	Create a clustering evaluation object to find the optimal number of clusters.
inconsistent	Compute the inconsistency coefficient for each link of a hierarchical cluster tree.
kmeans	Perform a K-means clustering of an NxD matrix.
linkage	Produce a hierarchical clustering dendrogram.
mahal	Mahalanobis' D-square distance.
optimalleaforder	Compute the optimal leaf ordering of a hierarchical binary cluster tree.
pdist	Return the distance between any two rows in X.
pdist2	Compute pairwise distance between two sets of vectors.
squareform	Interchange between distance matrix and distance vector formats.

TODO list

Missing functions:

• procrustes

Data Manipulation

Available functions

The following table lists the functions available for data manipulation.

Function	Description
combnk	Return all combinations of K elements in DATA.
crosstab	Create a cross-tabulation (contingency table) T from data vectors.
datasample	Randomly sample data.
grp2idx	Get index for group variables.
tabulate	Compute a frequency table.

Descriptive Statistics

Available functions

The following table lists the functions available for descriptive statistics.

Function	Description
geomean	Compute the geometric mean.
grpstats	Compute summary statistics by group. Fully MATLAB compatible.
harmmean	Compute the harmonic mean.
jackknife	Compute jackknife estimates of a parameter taking one or more given samples as parameters.
mean	Compute the mean. Fully MATLAB compatible.
median	Compute the median. Fully MATLAB compatible.
nanmax	Find the maximal element while ignoring NaN values.
nanmin	Find the minimal element while ignoring NaN values.
nansum	Compute the sum while ignoring NaN values.
std	Compute the standard deviation. Fully MATLAB compatible.
trimmean	Compute the trimmed mean.
std	Compute the variance. Fully MATLAB compatible.

In external packages

bootci, bootstrp are implemented in the statistics-bootstrap package.

Shadowing Octave core functions

The following functions will shadow the respective core functions until Octave 9.

• mean
• median
• std
• var

TODO list

Update geomean, harmmean, and trimmean functions to be fully MATLAB compatible.

Re-introduce the nan* functions implemented in C++ with the "all" and "vecdim" options.

Re-implement the following functions from core Octave, as shadowing functions with updated functionality regarding the "all", "omitnan", and "vecdim" options, with the intend to be included in Octave 9.

• cov
• mad
• meansq
• mode
• moment

Distributions

Available functions

The following table lists the cdf, icdf, pdf, and random functions available in the statistics package. Since version 1.5.3, all CDFs support the "upper" option for evaluating the complement of the respective CDF.

Note! The icdf wrapper for the quantile functions is not implemented yet.

Distribution Name	Cumulative Distribution Function	Quantile Function	Probability Density Function	Random Generator
Birnbaum–Saunders	bbscdf	bbsinv	bbspdf	bbsrnd
Beta	betacdf	betainv	betapdf	betarndbivariate
[Binomial	binocdf	binoinv	binopdf	binornd
Bivariate	bvncdf
Burr Type XII	burrcdf	burrinv	burrpdf	burrrnd
Cauchy	cauchy_cdf	cauchy_inv	cauchy_pdf	cauchy_rnd
Chi-squared	chi2cdf	chi2inv	chi2pdf	chi2rnd
Copula Family	copulacdf	copulainv	copulapdf	copularnd
Extreme Value	evcdf	evinv	evpdf	evrnd
Exponential	expcdf	expinv	exppdf	exprnd
F	fcdf	finv	fpdf	frnd
Gamma	gamcdf	gaminv	gampdf	gamrnd
Geometric	geocdf	geoinv	geopdf	geornd
Generalized Extreme Value	gevcdf	gevinv	gevpdf	gevrnd
Generalized Pareto	gpcdf	gpinv	gppdf	gprnd
Hypergeometric	hygecdf	hygeinv	hygepdf	hygernd
Inverse-Wishart			iwishpdf	iwishrnd
Johnson's SU	jsucdf		jsupdf
Laplace	laplace_cdf	laplace_inv	laplace_pdf	laplace_rnd
Logistic	logistic_cdf	logistic_inv	logistic_pdf	logistic_rnd
Log-normal	logncdf	logninv	lognpdf	lognrnd
Multinomial			mnpdf	mnrnd
Multivariate Normal	mvncdf	mvninv	mvnpdf	mvnrnd
Multivariate Student's T	mvtcdf mvtcdfqmc	mvtinv	mvtpdf	mvtrnd
Nakagami	nakacdf	nakainv	nakapdf	nakarnd
Negative Binomial	nbincdf	nbininv	nbinpdf	nbinrnd
Noncentral F	ncfcdf	ncfinv	ncfpdf	ncfrnd
Noncentral Student's T	nctcdf	nctinv	nctpdf	nctrnd
Noncentral Chi-squared	ncx2cdf	ncx2inv	ncx2pdf	ncx2rnd
Normal	normcdf	norminv	normpdf	normrnd
Poisson	poisscdf	poissinv	poisspdf	poissrnd
Rayleigh	raylcdf	raylinv	raylpdf	raylrnd
Standard Normal	stdnormal_cdf	stdnormal_inv	stdnormal_pdf	stdnormal_rnd
Student's T	tcdf	tinv	tpdf	trnd
Triangular	tricdf	triinv	tripdf	trirnd
Discrete Uniform	unidcdf	unidinv	unidpdf	unidrnd
Continuous Uniform	unifcdf	unifinv	unifpdf	unifrnd
von Mises	vmcdf		vmpdf	vmrnd
Weibull	wblcdf	wblinv	wblpdf	wblrnd
Wiener process				wienrnd
Wishart			wishpdf	wishrnd

Distribution Fitting

Functions available for estimating parameters and the negative log-likelihood for certain distributions.

Distribution Name	Parameter Estimation	Negativel Log-likelihood
Extreme Value	evfit	evlike
Exponential	expfit	explike
Gamma	gamfit	gamlike
Generalized Extreme Value	gevfit_lmom gevfit	gevlike
Generalized Pareto	gpfit	gplike
Normal		normlike

Distribution Statistics

Functions available for computing mean and variance from distribution parameters.

• betastat
• binostat
• chi2stat
• evstat
• expstat
• fstat
• gamstat
• geostat
• gevstat
• gpstat
• hygestat
• lognstat
• nbinstat
• ncfstat
• nctstat
• ncx2stat
• normstat
• poisstat
• raylstat
• fitgmdist
• tstat
• unidstat
• unifstat
• wblstat

Experimental Design

Functions available for computing design matrices.

• fullfact
• ff2n
• x2fx

Model Fitting

Functions available for fitting or evaluating statistical models.

• crossval
• fitgmdist
• fitlm

Cross Validation

Class of set partitions for cross-validation, used in crossval

• @cvpartition/cvpartition
• @cvpartition/display
• @cvpartition/get
• @cvpartition/repartition
• @cvpartition/set
• @cvpartition/test
• @cvpartition/training

TODO list

Missing functions:

• anova
• glmfit
• glmval
• manova
• mnrfit
• mnrval

Hypothesis Testing

Functions available for hypothesis testing

Function	Description
adtest	Anderson-Darling goodness-of-fit hypothesis test.
anova1	Perform a one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA)
anova2	Performs two-way factorial (crossed) or a nested analysis of variance (ANOVA) for balanced designs.
anovan	Perform a multi (N)-way analysis of (co)variance (ANOVA or ANCOVA) to evaluate the effect of one or more categorical or continuous predictors (i.e. independent variables) on a continuous outcome (i.e. dependent variable).
bartlett_test	Perform a Bartlett test for the homogeneity of variances.
barttest	Bartlett's test of sphericity for correlation.
binotest	Test for probability P of a binomial sample
chi2gof	Chi-square goodness-of-fit test.
chi2test	Perform a chi-squared test (for independence or homogeneity).
friedman	Performs the nonparametric Friedman's test to compare column effects in a two-way layout.
hotelling_t2test	Compute Hotelling's T^2 ("T-squared") test for a single sample or two dependent samples (paired-samples).
hotelling_t2test2	Compute Hotelling's T^2 ("T-squared") test for two independent samples.
kruskalwallis	Perform a Kruskal-Wallis test, the non-parametric alternative of a one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA).
kstest	Single sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov (K-S) goodness-of-fit hypothesis test.
kstest2	Two-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov goodness-of-fit hypothesis test.
levene_test	Perform a Levene's test for the homogeneity of variances.
manova1	One-way multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA).
ranksum	Wilcoxon rank sum test for equal medians. This test is equivalent to a Mann-Whitney U-test.
regression_ftest	F-test for General Linear Regression Analysis
regression_ttest	Perform a linear regression t-test for the null hypothesis RR * B = R in a classical normal regression model Y = X * B + E.
runstest	Runs test for detecting serial correlation in the vector X.
sampsizepwr	Sample size and power calculation for hypothesis test.
signtest	Test for median.
ttest	Test for mean of a normal sample with unknown variance or a paired-sample t-test.
ttest2	Perform a two independent samples t-test.
vartest	One-sample test of variance.
vartest2	Two-sample F test for equal variances.
vartestn	Test for equal variances across multiple groups.
ztest	One-sample Z-test.

TODO list

Missing functions:

• fishertest
• meanEffectSize

Wrappers

Functions available for wrapping other functions or group of functions.

Function	Description
cdf	This is a wrapper around various NAMEcdf and NAME_cdf functions.
clusterdata	Wrapper function for 'linkage' and 'cluster'.
pdf	This is a wrapper around various NAMEpdf and NAME_pdf functions.
random	Generates pseudo-random numbers from a given one-, two-, or three-parameter distribution.

TODO list

Update cdf, pdf, and random to include the latest changes in distribution functions available in statistics-1.5.3.

Missing functions:

• icdf