Release Notes Version 8 9

Changes and Bug Fixes in Version 8.9

Version 8.9 of PLS_Toolbox and Solo was released in September, 2020.

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

• LREG-DA - Logistic Regression for classification.
• SIMCA - Allow ability to cross-validate individual models in interface.
• CROSS-VALIDATION - Allow a class set to be used for custom cross validation.
• PLSDA
  • Allow creating of new class set based on modeling groups.
  • Enable Variable Selection methods VIP and sRatios.
• ASCA - Modified ASCA to use the ASCA+ extension as introduced by Thiel, Feraud, and Govaerts (2017) to handle an un-balanced experimental design dataset.
• PLOTGUI
  • Allow for creating a new class set via selection when viewing an existing class set.
  • Allow for overide of default class colors.
• Preprocess - Add filtering and despiking preprocess method.

Other Changes

File	Comment
editds	Add menu items for flipping data. Added Save Selected Indices and Load Selected Indices options under File menu.
analysis	Allow reset of included data (via xblock/yblock context menu).
anglemapper	Classification based on angle measures between signals.
xgb/xgbda	Add menu item to allow setting of include based on top N variables.
evrimodel	Add default naming to componentnames so components are unique by default.
visionairxmlreadr	Update java library.
doerunsheet	Increase font size.
anovadoe	Normalize sums of squares so that they the sum over all factors and error sum to 100% (as in Thiel et al (2017)).
selectvars	Extended to work when calibration Y-block is a multi-column class logical dataset or array.