Release Notes Version 7 0

Version 7.0 of PLS_Toolbox and Solo was released in October, 2012.

For general product information, see PLS_Toolbox Product Page. For information on Solo, see Solo Product Page. This release was done in conjunction with MIA_Toolbox / Solo+MIA version 2.8

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New Features

Batch Statistical Process Control Tools

• New top-level data processor to read, align, tag, and arrange batch data into appropriate form for batch analysis.
• Creates data in appropriate format for analysis with these model types:

  • Summary PCA (PCA on summary of variables over time)
  • Batch Maturity (PCA with heterogeneous confidence limits)
  • MPCA (Multiway PCA)
  • PARAFAC (Parallel Factor Analysis)
  • Summary PARAFAC (PARAFAC on summary of variables over time)
  • PARAFAC2 (only available in PLS_Toolbox with MATLAB)

• Graphical and automatic identification of batches and [optional] steps in the imported data.
• Automatic alignment of batches (when necessary) by linear, infilling, or Correlation Optimized Warping.
• Summary methods allow a wide range of statistics to be calculated for each variable.
• Opens processed data directly in Analysis for immediate model building.
• Steps to process data stored for easy application to new data (in data application mode.)

Analysis Window

• BatchMaturity analysis type added (PCA model with heterogeneous confidence limits for scores).
• Split data into calibration / validation sets using manual or automatic selection.
• Calculate relative T^2 and Q contributions. New buttons on Plot Controls allow selection of sample(s) as a T or Q reference set. Resulting T or Q contributions are done relative to those selected sample(s).
• Y-block loadings included in bi-plots (PLS).
• Cross-validation results in SSQ table.
• 3D Loadings from multiway methods can be plotted as 3D surfaces (or other 3D plots).
• Change included data directly on preprocessed data plots.
• "Export to Regression Vector" allowed for MLR models.
• Cross-validation default enabled with improved user awareness of options.
• Model Cache "Date" mode now sorts in descending order (for faster access to the most recent models and data)
• Tucker congruence and core consistency test added for multiway models (warn user if it looks like the "supposed to be one" components in the core are showing signs of degeneracy.)
• Purity now has "Resolve" and "Accept" buttons to improve usability.

Scores Plots

(see also #Plot Controls and Visualization Tools below)

• Add configurable display options to double-sided scores limits. Display limits as shaded regions, lines, and choose colors.
• View cross-validation subsets as classes to show which samples were in which cross-validation groups.
• Add support for SVMOC (command-line only)

Plot Controls and Visualization Tools

• Add automatic peak location and marking.
• Add quick-search bar for selection by labels, axisscales, and classes.
• Add selector to quickly change between plot types.
• Add "Monotonic" plot type.
• Add 'scatter' and 'line' types to plottype list (so user can FORCE these plot types if auto doesn't do the right thing).
• Add right-click access to quickly adjust axis limits and other plot settings.
• Improve selection appearance.
• Add class statistics information to right-click (shows # and % of samples in each class).
• Add colormap change options to right-click menus (With MIA_Toolbox and Solo+MIA only).
• Add autosize makers option ( automatically adjusts marker sizes to match axes size, if not specified otherwise).
• Improved 3D plot types.
• Improved stacked plots.
• Allow colorby axisscales and index and clarify what will be colored for all types (lines or points).
• Show class notice EACH TIME the plot is updated (allows easier reference for which class we're seeing) and an option to leave the name on at all times.
• Set the "select persistent" feature to default to be OFF.
• Add resize corner to magnify tool.
• Add ability to view an axisscale set as labels on points.

TrendTool

• Allow showing of more than 3 colors in image mode
• Enable use of imageaxisscale when showing images
• Add new peakfindgui function and tie-ins to PlotGUI and TrendTool to use this automatic peak finding

DataSet Editor

• Add support for axistype in labels tabs
• Add bulk selection change to context menus (allows quick selections based on list of all samples)
• Add export to ThermoGalactic SPC file format
• Add drop support (drop onto tabs imports data)
• Add classes to identify different data blocks when augmenting new data as columns

Import / Export

• SPC File Format

  • Improved multiple file reading (with unequally spaced x-axis)
  • improved handling of automatic axis scale names

• CSV File Format -Allow space, tab, and | as valid automatically-detected delimiters for CSV files (improves drag/drop importing behavior).

Preprocessing and Transformations

• savgol -Add selection of "tails" mode (improves performance at ends of spectra.)
• classcentroid -Add classcentroid centering preprocessing methods.
• mscorr -Add new 'median' method for robust scaling (and to use with Probabilistic Quotient Normalization - PQN.)
• wlsbaseline -Add Whittaker filter option to Weighted Least Squares baseline. FAST and better for baselines which don't look like polynomials.
• reducennsamples -Added access to help within settings dialog.

New Demo Datasets

cancer -Fluorescence EEM spectra from images of cervices with various states of cervical cancer.

Dupont_BSPC -Batch data (10 variables x 36 batches at 100 time intervals) from Nomikos & MacGregor, Technometrics, 37(1), 1995.

OliveOilData -Olive Oil FT-IR Classification data from Dahlberg, et. al. Appl. Spectrosc., 51(8), 1118-1124 (1997)

General Solo Improvements

• Re-enable docked figures with Solo & Solo+MIA.
• Improved memory performance (java.opts modification).

New Command-line Features and Functions

• Full Support for Matlab R2012b

Command-line Tool Changes

• Quick Reference Card -New quick reference card ( PLS_Toolbox_Quick_Reference.pdf )

• autoexport -add SPC export functionality.
• chitest -add distribution name and function name to chitest outputs (making it much easier to apply the results).
• coreanal -updated coreanal.m to be able to provide a list of important core values (new optional second output).
• crossval -added output of cvi to help identify which leave-out group each sample was in.
• encode -Increase number of items allowed in each row of "speed" encoded files (makes the encoding MUCH faster)
• ils_esterror -Various improvements to allow different types of error estimates.
• mscorr -Add option.algorithm to include new option 'median', based on Probabilistic Quotient Normalization.
• spcreadr

  • Improved multiple file reading (with unequally spaced x-axis)
  • Improved handling of automatic axis scale names

• svmoc -add support to plot scores from SVM One Class models.
• windowfilter -Added method 'roll' (for processing rows only), slight modification to RH edge indexing during call (is last channel processed?)
• wlsbaseline -Add Whittaker filter option to wlsbaseline and wlsbaselineset (FAST and better for baselines which don't look like polynomials)
• xclreadr -Allow space, tab, and | as valid automatically-detected delimiters for CSV files

• DataSet Object - Changes:

  • Decrease dependency on PLS_Toolbox
  • Allow assignment directly onto imageaxisscale

• DataSet Object - New Methods:

  • FINDSET -Locate a set within a label field (axisscale,label,class) in a DataSet.
  • LISTSETS -For a given field and mode list the sets available.
  • SEARCH -Search for given term in a dso field, mode, and set.
  • UPDATESET -Add/update a label field (axisscale,label,class) in a DataSet.

Misc New Functions

batchalign - Convert data columns based on matching ref col to target vector.

batchmaturity - Batch process model and monitoring.

batchfold - Transform batch data into dataset for analysis.

classcentriod - Centers data to the centroid of all classes.

evrimodel - EVRI Model Object.

minimizemodel - Shrinks model by removing non-critical information.

plotmontonic - Plot lines with breaks when the x-value "doubles-back" on itself.

roccurve - Calculate and display ROC curve(s) for yknown and ypred.

splitcaltest - Splits randomly ordered data into calibration and test sets.

unhist -Create a vector whose values follow an empirical distribution.

writespc - Writes Galactic SPC files.