Re: [Scilab-users] opportunity of merging cov() and covar()

2020-02-19 Thread Federico Miyara
Stéphane, My first argument in favor of keeping covar and cov as separate functions is that often what one needs is the covariance between two potentially correlated signals regardless of their individual variances, so it seems somewhat inefficient to compute essentially three covariances

[Scilab-users] opportunity of merging cov() and covar()

2020-02-19 Thread Stéphane Mottelet
Hi all, Within the development team we recently had a discussion about the improvement of cov() in terms of speed and memory requirement and about the opportunity of merging cov() and covar() wich are two disctinct macros. Since we did not manage to reach a consensus we thought it could be