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

Analysis Window

• Feature

Workspace Browser

• Feature

Import / Export

• hjyreadr - Improved ability to install and manage ActiveX object.

Plot Controls and Visualization Tools

• Selectable

DataSet Editor

• Plot

Other Method Improvements

• Classification methods - include "Class Pred Member - multiple" indicating when a sample is being assigned to more than one class.

New Demo Datasets

TODO: Add Descriptions

cancer

Dupont_BSPC

OliveOilData

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 )

• 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).
• ils_esterror -Various improvements to allow different types of error estimates.
• svmoc -add support to plot scores from SVM One Class models.
• DataSet Object - New methods added:

  • 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

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

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

minimizemodel - Shrinks model by removing non-critical information.

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.

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

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

writespc - Writes Galactic SPC files.