Release Notes Version 8 5

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Changes and Bug Fixes in Version 8.5

Version 8.5 of PLS_Toolbox and Solo was released in September, 2017.

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 primary focus of version 8.5 has been in Calibration Transfer and additional importers.

• PLS_Toolbox/Solo 8.5 has been tested extensively with Matlab 2017b prerelease and should be compatible with the coming release.

• Simplified interface design changes. Various controls have been moved to simplify interfaces. Seldom used settings have been moved to options in several cases (e.g., simplified SVM panel).

Calibration Transfer

• New Model-centric Calibration Transfer - Interface to develop instrument specific models with calibration transfer.

• NLSTD - Create or apply non-linear instrument transfer models (PLS_Toolbox only).

• SST - Spectral Subspace Transformation calibration transfer.

• Corn DSO - New calibration transfer demonstration data set added. 80 samples of corn measured on 3 different NIR spectrometers with moisture, oil, protein and starch values for each of the samples is also included.

Importers

• shimadzueemreadr - Imports Shimadzu EEM formatted text files.
• visionairxmlreadr - Imports Vision Air formatted XML files (X- & Y-Blocks).
• pltreadr - Imports Vision Air model files (.plt).

• aqualogreadr - Improved capability of loading multiple files containing samples of varying sizes (PLS_Toolbox only).

• jascoeemreadr - Improved capability of loading multiple files containing samples of varying sizes (PLS_Toolbox only).

• hitachieemreadr - Improved capability of loading multiple files containing samples of varying sizes (PLS_Toolbox only).

• RAWREAD - Added support for new version format (3 & 4) (See MIA_Toolbox).

• SPGREADR Added new feature, options.spectrumindex now can be an integer, an array of integers (indices, & order doesn't matter), or 'all'. When loading multiple files, options.spectrumindex must be either a single value or 'all'.

Other Features and Improvements

• Cook's Distance - Calculates Cooks Distance for samples in a regression model.

• RPLS - A recursive PLS and PCR variable selection algorithm.

• MANHATTANDIST - Calculate Manhattan Distance between rows of a matrix.

• Confusionmatrix - Classification results formatting options added.

• Added GLS Weighting to model optimizer.