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+# Copyright 2013-2021 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
+
+from spack import *
+
+
+class OctaveStatistics(OctavePackage, SourceforgePackage):
+    """Additional statistics functions for Octave."""
+
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/statistics/"
+    sourceforge_mirror_path = "octave/statistics-1.4.2.tar.gz"
+
+    version('1.4.2', sha256='7976814f837508e70367548bfb0a6d30aa9e447d4e3a66914d069efb07876247')
+
+    depends_on('octave-io')
+    extends('octave@4.0.0:')