News

August 15, 2006

A conscientious user identified a problem with ‘Data | Create new variables from variable groups’. What should have taken seconds with certain configurations was taking hours, due to a few missing lines of code :). This problem has been fixed in PATN v3.11. This is a free update for existing users (run File | Check…

July 28, 2006

A free downloadable trial version of PATN is now available. This version contains the ‘Medals’ dataset and is fully functioning except that the demo version it will not import a Data Table, but will import evaluation data Added a demonstration ‘use-case‘ on marine benthic community data. Added a FAQ on the PATN installation process. Added a FAQ on Data Management and PATN.…

June 2, 2006

PATN v3.1 released! The changes include- PATN can now import a lower symmetric association matrix for objects or variables (File | Import | Row (or column) Lower Symmetric Association matrix). This matrix can be either be formatted as an unlabelled CSV file or as a file in the identical format as exported from PATN. A…

December 3, 2004

PATN v3.03 released. Added a demonstration ‘use case‘ on the ‘medals’ dataset Minkowski Series (Manhattan and Euclidean distance) association added to non-hierarchical classification. This series allows for weighting of variables akin to the DOS PATN ALOB routine. The display of PATN and a-priori groups on the ordination plot is now annotated in the information region…

October 26, 2004

17 brief video clips of a range of PATN operations have been added to the Web site. These are intended as an interim until a trial version of PATN is released (replaced now by PATN’s trial version). I am planning to go to the Ecological Society of Australia conference in Adelaide (December 7-10, 2004). It would…