[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #36718] moment, skewness, and kurtosis differences with Matlab

[Rik]

Update of bug #36718 (project octave):

                  Status:                    None => Need Info              
                 Summary: moment, skewness and kurtosis => moment, skewness,
and kurtosis differences with Matlab

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Follow-up Comment #1:

I swear I updated this a few years ago.  Maybe Matlab has been slowly changing
their defaults.

On reading the documentation I see that skewness and kurtosis have a flag
which decides whether bias correction is applied.  Rather than just changing
Octave to use the current default, it would be better to add support for the
bias flag and then set the flag to the default value used by Matlab.

Could you run the following tests to see how Matlab is applying bias
correction?


x = [1:5].^2;
skewness (x, 0)
kurtosis (x, 0)



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