Release Notes Version 6 7

Version 6.7 of PLS_Toolbox and Solo was released in March, 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 2.5

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NEW FEATURES

Analysis Window

• Drag and Drop - Import files by simply dragging and dropping onto the Analysis window.
• Confusion Table - Show cross-validated results when available.
• Improved modelcache performance and string handling.
• Updated toolbar icons.
• Variance captured information now available from regression and MCR models and information is included report writer results.
• X_hat (Data estimate) now available for test/prediction data.
• Export models to ASCII-MOD file file format.

Workspace Browser

• Drag and Drop - Import files by simply dragging and dropping onto the Workspace Browser window. Improve highlighting of drop location. Also load, combine, and use data within Workspace Browser tools by dragging and dropping from any of the panes (Model cache/Demo data, Workspace, Analysis tools).

Import / Export

• hjyreadr - Improved ability to install and manage ActiveX object.
• xclreadr - Add support for Apache POI java API for Windows documents for improved cross platform Excel file reading.

Plot Controls

• Selectable plot themes (White, Black, or Grey backgrounds)
• Custom Color-By values can now be loaded from (row/column) of a DataSet or matrix.
• X-axis direction control using Plot Controls option 'axisautoinvert' (setting of -1 forces axis to be inverted)
• Improved use of axis scales for multi-way data.

DataSet Editor

• Plot tab added to allow easy access to data plot.

Design Of Experients (DOE) Tools

• Updated DOE effects plot behavior, now displays all plots.

Other Method Improvements

• Classification methods now include "Class Pred Member - multiple" indicating when a sample is being assigned to more than one class.
• "Strict Class Assignment" classification threshold can be adjusted using the 'strictthreshold' option (default = 50%).
• More cross-validation results available for Locally Weighted Regression (LWR) models.
• Improved iPLS/iPLSDA/iMLR plots

Preprocessing

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Command-line Tool Changes

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NEW FUNCTIONS AND FILES

• Full Support for Matlab R2012a

Misc New Functions

classsummary - List class and axisscale distributions for a DataSet.

figuretheme - Resets a figure background and axes to a specified color.

windowfilter - Spectral filtering.