Release Notes Version 7 9

Version 7.9 of PLS_Toolbox and Solo was released in October, 2014.

For general product information, see PLS_Toolbox Product Page. For information on Solo, see Solo Product Page.

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New Features in Solo and PLS_Toolbox

• The release of Matlab 2014b includes a major update to the graphical infrastructure. PLS_Toolbox 7.9 has undergone significant updates to be compatible with Matlab 2014b. These graphical features are not yet included in Solo but will be so in a future release.

• Multiple fixes for Mac stability and speed.

• Improved warning management.

Analysis and Models

• ASCA - Allow plotting of variable effects on either raw data or preprocessed data.
• Correlation Map - Add ability to copy and/or save correlation map results.
• Cross Validation - Improved handling of cross-validation switching between iterations & venetian blind width.
• PLSDA - Fix to assure reduced statistics are provided in prediction if original model had flag set for reduced statistics.
• SVM - Add decision function values to model details (model.detail.svm.decfnvals and model.detail.svm.decfnvals_pred)
• Report Writer / Figure Export:

- Updates for MS Office 2013.

- clipboard_image - Fix copying image to clipboard for Mac.

Importers

• Bruker OPUS Import (opusreadr) - Multiple updates for error checking and new format.
• parsexml - Support reading base64 compressed data.

Preprocessing

• Haar transform added to preprocessing options
• baseline - Improved basline options for min/max subtraction.
• FLUCUT/EEM Preprocessing - Allow interpolation instead of just missing data replacement of scatter.

Other Interfaces

• Hierarchical Model Builder - Improved screen capture for long (left-right) models.
• Model Optimizer - Several updates and fixes for better preprocessing iteration.
• Workspace Browser - Allow dropping of Image Processor data.
• Experiment Designer - Add ability to save confusion matrix data.