Re: Problem and solution: Patch for new "stats" command

[Jonathan T. <jt...@as...>]

On Mon, 9 Nov 2009, Philipp K. Janert wrote:
> There was a question whether the stats command
> works on "a sample or a population". Neither!
> It works on a a DATA FILE, like the rest of gnuplot.
> (And therefore there is no ambiguity.)

I'm sorry, but I still don't know whether this means it uses N or N-1
weighting.  I would find it useful to have *both* printed out -- each is
valuable in different circumstances.

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