I’m trying to standardize (subtract the mean and divide by the standard deviation) of each column in a matrix. In doing so, I think I’v discovered a bug in the var() function when supplying the means. The following code calculates the variance of the second column of Y as NaN or Inf about 1% of the…

See Add missing shape checks for the means argument to var[m] and std[m] by nalimilan · Pull Request #32 · JuliaStats/Statistics.jl · GitHub .

Bug in var() when supplying means as vectors

laborg April 5, 2020, 4:36pm 5

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