statistics-1.8.0

Summary of important user-visible changes for statistics 1.8.0

Important Notice:

1. Minimum Octave version required is now Octave 9.1.0
2. Additional dependency to the datatypes package
3. Incompatibility with the nan and tablicious packages

News:

• New makima function
• Updated libsvm library to version 3.36
• Updated documentation and many new demos, especially for class methods and properties