LAMBDA toolkit / News: Recent posts

I have finally finished incorporating the changes to the bootstrapping functions (see the 6-15-08 news item) into the main distribution and revised the code to the point where I think it is stable enough to call it "version 1.0.0". LAMBDA should now be considered in stable release, and no longer in beta.

Thanks to all those who helped and gave me feedback.

There was a slight issue with the bootstrapping function. I have not had time to thoroughly test the fix, so I have not made a new version yet. However, the file to fix the problem is located in the "all files" section, called DoBootstrap.m. If you download this file and place it into the MAR folder in lambda's main folder, this will correct the problem -- which was that it was not "respecting" your choices if you were telling it to definitely include or exclude variates or covariates... it was just trying them all.... read more

The wiki-fication of the LAMBDA documentation is now basically done. I need to eventually add some screenshots for illustration, but all the text of the PDF and Word file user guides has been imported into the wiki. Thus, LAMBDA documentation can now be viewed online directly as well as downloaded.

I have begun slowly incorporating the text of the latest draft of the LAMBDA documentation (which is kept in Word and PDF files) into the Wiki section here at SourceForge. The goal is to eventually have the entire document essentially "mirrored" here at SourceForge on the Wiki, so that there is a way to do online searches for documentation items. Also, once it's done I will allow other people to update it, which will hopefully make this a vibrant and dynamic, and more thorough, documentation of the software.

In addition to this download area, LAMBDA now has a regular web page where more information is presented, and other links are provided. You can visit LAMBDA's web page by going to http://lambda-toolkit.sourceforge.net.

It's a fairly simple, minimalist website right now, but I will be working on improving and updating it as time goes on.

Enjoy!

LAMBDA is a MatLab toolkit designed to assist the user with advanced statistical analysis of population and community ecology. It uses the Multivariate Auto-Regressive, first-order, or MAR(1), approach of Ives et al. (2003) published in the journal Ecology.

The SourceForge is now LAMBDA's new (and permanent) home. All future updates and releases (including the upcoming 1.0 full release) will be posted here. They will also be mirrored at other sites like the Northwest Fisheries Science Center, when I can get that organized and co-ordinated.... read more