meters are checked
for validity despite possibly degrading runtime performance. When FALSE invalid inputs may
silently render incorrect outputs. Default value: FALSE.</p></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <th>allow_nan_stats</th>
      <td><p>Logical, default TRUE. When TRUE, statistics (e.g., mean, mode, variance)
use the value NaN to indicate the result is undefined. When FALSE, an exception is raised if
one or more of the statistic's batch members are undefined.</p></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <th>name</th