[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #64328] [octave-forge](statistics) provide default parameters for logi (logistic) distribution

[Andreas Bertsatos]

Follow-up Comment #3, bug#64328 (group octave):

The reason logipdf and a couple of other functions were changed so that they
require all parameters than having the defaults, was an attempt to have the
same interface with all other functions. And since most dist functions did not
use default values, I decided to remove the default parameters from the rest
with the exception of norm* functions (due to standard normal). I understand
that this may not appeal to some users and may also break some older code, but
it was a decision of preference (mostly based on my experience teaching
statistics) to urge students to get familiar with distribution parameters.
This was the main reason why all dist functions got a link to the
corresponding wikipedia page as well. However, thank you for pointing out the
inconsistency in the help docstring of logipdf function, which I fixed with
this commit
https://github.com/gnu-octave/statistics/commit/76c1236f88caa1e4dbc612411c1c8df1f27a930c
I've also fixed a few other inconsistencies in the documentation of the
distribution functions. This can be closed.


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