Release Notes Version 7 8

New Features in Solo and PLS_Toolbox

ASCA (Analysis of Variance Simultaneous Component Analysis)

• Add new command-line and Analysis Window-based access to ASCA method
• Allows multivariate analysis of designed experiments by creating a PCA model for each of the ANOVA-calculated effect matrices.
• In the Analysis window, user can navigate through each factor's PCA model investigating the magnitude and influenced variables.
• Effect of each factor are reported in the Effects column and in the scores for the PCA model for the particular factor.
• The variable(s) which are significantly influenced by the factor are given by the loadings for the PCA model on that factor.
• Includes a permutation calculator which, when enabled, will report the probability that the given effect is significant (based on randomization of samples within each level of each given factor)

Analysis Interface

• Add ASCA (ANOVA Simultaneous Component Analysis) analysis method
• Always reconcile variables in test set with model, even when the NUMBER of variables matches
• Add support for "wide" (thick) venetian blinds
• Give advice when current cross-validation conditions are non-optimal (in Cross-validation settings window AND in Analysis window)
• Improve cross-validation speed
• ANN: fix for bug which showed the wrong CV predicted values for models with > 1 Node (always shows the CV Pred for 1 node)
• Add showyinbiplot option which allows hiding y-loadings in the Biplot
• Add sorting option for dates in cache.
• Fix for pointer not always getting set back to arrow
• Add "weights" option to PLS and PLSDA to weight samples
• Speed improvements for iPLS, iPLSDA, Stepwise MLR
• Calculate and show area under the curve (AUC) for ROC curves

Preprocessing

• Log10: Use an offset AND ignore negative values
• Normalize: Allow normalization with multi-way data
• Arithmetic: Add visual variable selection

Browse

• Align variables (if possible) when joining two datasets in the samples dimension
• Add new drag drop behavior for datasets onto datasets, datasets onto preprocessing, and datasets onto models.
• Add support for F2 = rename selected variable
• Give option to clear data from base workspace if large data is pushed into Analysis or Image Manager

Dataset Editor

• Add View > Class and Axisscale Summary menu to EditDS (views Class Summary table)
• Add View Boxplot to menus (simple boxplot call)

Importers

• Text graphical import tool - improved support for ignoring data, automatically detecting types, and visibility
• Streamlined importing from GUIs- no longer necessary to select file type first, simply locate and load the file(s) of interest
• Date format yyyymmddTHHMMSS (datestr format 30) is now recognized automatically
• Automatically sort filenames into alphabetical order when importing
• Horiba importer (hjyreadr) automatically transpose image so that it matches Horiba's image mode
• Text importer (textreadr):
  • Fix bug when number of total items is less than row/column "numerical value" threshold
  • Fix bug when a double-quoted label happens to look numeric (don't convert to numeric unless there are NO other numeric values present); also improves speed slightly and cleans up code significantly
  • Fix for bug which mis-assigned items when ignoring rows/columns (fix: adjust OTHER row/column indexes for the discarded rows)
  • Recognize dates which use spelled out month names
  • Add improved auto-detection of XLS (look for binary file)
  • Allow "importtool" as synonym for "graphical_selection"
  • Add catdim and autopermute options to manually control concatenation of multiple files
• SPC importer (spcreadr):
  • Fix for bug reading files with negative scaling exponents (fexp<0)
  • Fix to better handle files that have binary logs as well as text audit logs
  • Add ability to specify data is an image by including "imagesize=..." and "imageorder=..." in audit log
  • Add ability to specify author and name to be used by including them as key=value pairs in audit log

Plot Controls

• Add "automonotonic" flag to plotgui to avoid use of monotonic in "auto" mode unless allowed
• Add scroll-wheel functionality (zoom plot, combine with shift or control to zoom one axes, click and move to pan)
• Add density-plot replot on zoom functionality
• Add click-to-highlight feature to move a line or class set to the front of the plot
• Significant improvement to speed of updating when plot control listbox does not need to be repopulated
• Add logic to bring target figure back to focus after docking controls (avoids issue that clicking on figure looses focus on figure)
• Allow ALL options to be seen in settings
• Add class connect methods "spider" and "means" (connect means of each x)
• Change connect class toolbar button into a popup menu
• Convert Axis Settings from instant-pop-up to context-menu-based command
• Axis Settings "all fonts" option now changes axes fonts too
• Change class colors base to improve visibility
• Move axis lines and class outlines to bottom of plot order so that right-click controls are not inaccessible
• Exporting figure: add new "resizemode" option to control resizing behavior
• Revise classmarkers to improve speed and automatically tie colors to classcolors

Hierarchical Model Builder

• Add ability to set preferences including whether Q and T2 tests are based on reduced statistics and what thresholds should be used to trigger "otherwise" in PLSDA-based rule nodes
• Add scores as ouptut option for regression models
• Add "on-canvas" display of numerics, strings, errors, and model types
• Added ability to set condition on end points before the content of the end point has been defined
• Improve behavior when overwriting nodes with similar node type
• Allow drag/drop of models onto nodes to overwrite existing rule node WITHOUT changing branches (if possible)
• Allow double-click of model-based rule nodes to open model in Analysis
• Fix for error using "load" toolbar button or menu option
• Add "copy image to clipboard" functionality.

Model Optimizer

• Fix bug that causes error when no y-block is loaded.

mpca / parafac

• Allow for single slab input for prediction if sizes of two existing modes match variables for n-way array

New Command-line Features and Functions

Command-Line Changes

• anovadoe
  • Fix to force use of center points
  • Use design information to identify center points ONLY (don't infer based on values)
  • Allow input of matrix for y (squelches statistical tests - only reports coefficients)
  • Add calculation of 3-way interactions
  • Calculate the ANOVA decomposition column/matrices as needed for ASCA
• boxplot
  • Fix for bug which would truncate labels to a single character
  • Fix for bug when converting multiple inputs to options structure when one of those inputs was a cell array
  • Revision to logic - give preference to classes in DSO when grouping (if no classes passed) THEN use labels (if no classes present in DSO)
• confusionmatrix / confusiontable
  • Handle excluded samples in simca case.
  • Allow cell array of strings to be passed as trueClass and predClass
  • Fix for bug in texttable output when no y is present
• dataset -Add augment to DSO, will create class that tracks augmented datasets after a cat.
• Experiment Designer -Add randomize menu item, overhaul options usage, and fix a few bugs with loading a DOE dataset.