NEWS

 Summary of important user-visible changes for statistics 1.7.0:
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 Important Notice: 1) `mad`, `mean`, `median`, `std`, `var` functions
                      shadow core Octave's respective functions prior
                      to Octave v9.1
                   2) incompatibility with the `nan` package
 New functions:
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 ** fcnnpredict

 ** fcnntrain

 ** fitcdiscr

 ** fitcgam

 ** fitcnet

 ** fitcsvm

 ** loadmodel

 ** signrank

 New classdefs:
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 ** ClassificationDiscriminant

 ** ClassificationGAM

 ** ClassificationNeuralNetwork

 ** ClassificationPartitionedModel

 ** ClassificationSVM

 ** CompactClassificationDiscriminant

 ** CompactClassificationGAM

 ** CompactClassificationNeuralNetwork

 ** CompactClassificationSVM

 Improvements:
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 ** BinomialDistribution: fixed computations on truncated distribution
                          methods (github issue #128)

 ** ClassificationKNN: new methods and various bug fixes

 ** finv: fix erratic output for very large DF2 (savannah bug #66034)

 ** fitcknn: support for cross-validation

 ** NegativeBinomialDistribution: fixed computations on truncated distribution
                                  methods (github issue #128)

 ** plot method for probability distribution objects updated to support 'cdf'
    and 'probability' PlotType options (github issue #129)

 ** PoissonDistribution: fixed computations on truncated distribution
                         methods (github issue #128)