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  ** unidfit: accepts frequency vector as third input argument
 
  ** unifit: accepts frequency vector as third input argument
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+ Summary of important user-visible changes for statistics 1.6.5:
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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
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+ Improvements:
+ =============
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+ ** mad/median: correct mad handling of vectors with multiple Infs
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+ ** various fixes to avoid errors when testing the package functions