Summary of New Features in Mathematica 8 (Mathematica Guide)

BoxExtraSpacing (Statistical Plots Package Symbol)

BoxExtraSpacing is an option for BoxWhiskerPlot which specifies spacing adjustments to be applied when plotting multiple boxes.

Finance (Mathematica Guide)

Mathematica has fully integrated support for many of the tools used in classical and modern finance. These capabilities include financial instrument valuation, advanced time ...

IntegerQ (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

IntegerQ[expr] gives True if expr is an integer, and False otherwise.

MTensor_getInteger (Mathematica LibraryLink C Function)

int MTensor_getInteger (MTensor t, mint*pos, mint*pres) gets an element from an MTensor of integer type.

WeibullDistribution (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

WeibullDistribution[\[Alpha], \[Beta]] represents a Weibull distribution with shape parameter \[Alpha] and scale parameter \[Beta].WeibullDistribution[\[Alpha], \[Beta], ...

HoldAll (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

HoldAll is an attribute which specifies that all arguments to a function are to be maintained in an unevaluated form.

Multivariate Statistics Package (Multivariate Statistics Package Tutorial)

This package contains descriptive statistics for multivariate data and distributions derived from the multivariate normal distribution. Distributions are represented in the ...

MinStableDistribution (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

MinStableDistribution[\[Mu], \[Sigma], \[Xi]] represents a generalized minimum extreme value distribution with location parameter \[Mu], scale parameter \[Sigma], and shape ...

StepMonitor (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

StepMonitor is an option for iterative numerical computation functions that gives an expression to evaluate whenever a step is taken by the numerical method used.