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A. New Palettes in 1.2
 Continuous palette |
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revised + added skew-Normal distribution (Azzalini)
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| Discrete palette |
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new distributions: Waring and ZIP
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| Kernels palette [new] |
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provides easy point-and-click access to all the standard kernels, including the Bi-weight, Cosinus, Epanechnikov, Gaussian, Triangular, Tri-weight and Uniform kernels
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| And, of course, one can still always specify any arbitrary pdf manually |
Palettes in mS 1.2
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B. New Functions in 1.2
| Core code base |
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20% larger |
| DiscreteRNG |
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now supports symbolic domains of support such as: {to, be, or, not, to, be} |
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faster code + better parameter support in List Form |
| NPKDE |
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this new function derives non-parametric kernel density estimates at a point (exact) [ Show me ] |
| NPKDEPlot |
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far more efficient |
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can now plot a FAMILY OF CURVES [ Show me ]
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| OrderStat |
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can now find order statistics for DISCRETE random variables
[ Show me ]
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| OrderStatDomain |
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now supports DISCRETE random variables
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| PlotDensity |
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extensively re-written; neater, more elegant plots; improved support for graphics Options |
| RawToCentral |
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now supports MULTIVARIATE conversions |
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completes the suite of moment to moment conversion functions |
| Integration |
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new results; improved code |
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C. Speed Improvements
| Non-parametric kernel density estimation |
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new optimised code base
40 times faster for larger data sets (n>1000)
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| Pseudo-random number generation |
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4 times faster for certain classes of List Form pseudo-random number generation |
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D. Help System - improvements
| Expanded HELP entries, more detailed, with many more "Further Examples" |
| Usage messages |
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now supports Mathematica's Click for More Detail user interface. For example: |
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E. Licensing changes
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New MachineID license |
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This new license class is designed for the following situation: |
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your department has a Mathematica Network License for, say, 100 copies of Mathematica... |
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one of these 100 copies of Mathematica is physically installed on your own computer... |
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and you want to run mathStatica only on your own computer (not on all the machines) |
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The new mathStatica MachineID license enables an individual or department to purchase a single copy of mathStatica for a specific machine, even though the department has a shared Mathematica Network License for all the machines in the department. The MachineID license is ideally suited to situations where only 1 individual in the department wants to use mathStatica. If more than 1 person wants to use mathStatica , it may be cheaper to purchase a special mathStatica Network License that will enable everyone in the department to use mathStatica . |
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F. Other improvements
| User syntax |
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mathStatica now checks your input more thoroughly to ensure that your syntax is valid |
| Plus ... hundreds of small 'bug' fixes + enhancements |
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