New Features/Upgrades - Distance 1 Release 2 Release Notes

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Distance 1 Release 2 Release Notes
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bet | 2/2 | Sana | 24.12.2019 | Hajmi | 54,05 Kb. | | #4740 |
New Features/Upgrades
· Now compatible with extended character set versions of Windows (e.g., Chinese, Japanise and Korean language Windows). See ReadMe.rtf and known problem 247 for details.
Resolved Problems Interface
{241} Browsers: Deleting a set of, say, surveys where one survey is used by an analysis causes problems because the analysis does then not have a valid survey. [25 Oct 03 LJT; fixed 25 Oct 03]
{250} Browsers: Under some circumstances, deleting a set and then closing the project could lead to strange behaviour such as new items disappearing. [2 Dec 03 LJT; fixed 2 Dec 03 LJT]
{252} Help: some pictures missing.
{243} Model Definition Properties: Detection Function | Diagnostics. If you make a mistake manually setting the cutpoints and click OK, Distance closes the window and stores the mistake. Then, next time you open the Properties window, it tells you there’s a mistake but doesn’t let you get at the Diagnostics page to correct it. [Workshop Participants Sept 2003; Fixed LJT 16 Oct 2003]
{244} Projection properties: Doesn’t recognize decimal values that end in 0 as numbers – e.g., a scale of 0.999600. [LJT 20 Oct 2003; Fixed LJT 20 Oct 2003]
Analysis Engines
· {242} Can get the warning “Degrees of freedom less than 1.0 for estimating confidence limits on density of objects. Confidence limits not calculated” when df is clearly greater than 1 – indeed sample sizes are large. [Jeremy Lindsell 30 Sept 2003] [Fixed LJT 4 Oct 2003, Caused by a bug in calculating df using the Satterhhwaite method when sample sizes are large.]
· {245} Satterthwaite degrees of freedom could be calculated slightly wrongly (numerical accuracy level – i.e., 7th or more decimal place) resulting in df=0.9999... rather than 1.0000, which caused an Internal Error 35 when calculating confidence intervals [LJT 24 Oct 2003; Fixed 24 Oct 2003]
· {248} When the truncation distance is a very small number, can get an “invalid starting value” error when fitting the hazard rate key function. (Problem due to the way the upper bound is set on the 2nd hazard rate parameter) [DLB 28 Nov 2003; Fixed LJT 28 Nov 2003]
· {249} Manually defined lower bounds not being set correctly [LJT 28 Nov 2003; Fixed LJT 28 Nov 2003]
· {251} Under some circumstancs, could get Internal Error 22 when doing cluster size regression and smearing. [Sophie Laran and LJT 30 Nov 03; fixed LJT 2 Dec 03]
Resolved problems and new features in Release 1
New Features/Upgrades
Added qq-plot, Craemer-von Mises and Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests for CDS and MCDS analyses when data are exact.
When calculating adjustment terms for CDS and MCDS analyses, can standardize distances by truncation distance, w, or scale parameter of key function, σ. See online help for uses of this feature.
Analysis engines: Upgraded compiler to Compaq Fortran 6.6a. Probably won’t make any difference to results.
Components: GIS component upgraded from MapObjects 2.1 to 2.2. New version contains various bug fixes and an improved projection engine which is faster and contains a bunch of new geocoordinate systems, projections and units.
Components: Actbar2.ocx upgraded from 2.0.5.32 to 2.5.0.65. Fixes some minor bugs in the toolbar.
Components: Spreadsheet component vsflex7d.ocx upgraded from 7.0.1.151 to 7.0.1.187. Removes dependence on urlmon.dll which was causing problems for WinNT machines that didn’t have Internet Exporer installed (problem 197).
Resolved Problems Installation
{197} Message "The dynamic link library urlmon.dll could not be found in the specified path". This occurs under older operating systems (has been seen on NT4) because urlmon and related files are not present. The file is currently required by one component of Distance (the ComponentOne Flexgrid). We are working on a permanent solution with the manufactureres of the component, but meanwhile a workaround is to install Internet Explorer 6.0 or later, and then run the setup program again.
{240} On a windows 2000 server, we have a report of Distance not starting at all (the splash screen appears for an instant, then the program stops). The solution appears to be to install some additional database software from Microsoft (MDAC 2.0) – contact program authors for details [Debbie Devore 10 Aug 03; Workaround LJT 14 Aug 03]
Interface
{225} Help: On some systems, opening online help gives the message “The window name 'Main' passed to HH_GET_WIN_TYPE has not been specified.” twice, before help is opened. [LJT 20 March 03; Fixed LJT 26 March 03]
{228} Main Window: You can select tools and menus from the toolbar while projects are opening and closing, which confuses Distance. Need to disable the toolbar while Distance is busy. [Fixed LJT 25 Apr 03]
{223} Projection parameters dialog: No help when you press F1. [LJT 21 Mar 2003; Fixed LJT 21 Mar 2003]
Design Engine and Design Properties
{238} Error message “Point sampler and survey region do not intersect”. Has been seen to occur in routine D4DesEng.ModDesignEnginePointUtilities.CalculateCircleSamplerIntersection but probably also occurs elsewhere. Caused by a bug in the GIS software, which incorrectly concludes that a point is not within the study area. Seems to occur when the sampler radius is very small in comparison to the study area – try using a larger sampler radius in Design Properties | Sampler. [16 May 2003 Eve MacDonald – I think I’ve programmed a workaround in code so this should not happen - Len Thomas 19/5/03]
Analysis Engines
· {234} When bootstrapping, can get a numerical overflow error in size bias regression routine {Dan Pike 8 May 03; Fixed LJT 9 May 03]
· {239} When analyzing multiple key functions in the same run, and data grouped into 2 intervals, it is common for both keys to give the same AIC (or other selection criteria). Distance arbitarily chooses the first. [Stuart Newson 30 June 2003; Fixed LJT 10 July 2003: Distance now chooses one or the other at random, and outputs a warning message.]
MCDS Analysis Engine
{84} Post stratification by variables in the observation layer for MCDS analyses leads to an error in D4CDSNEngineInterface DataFileMaker.GetFactorInfo. (This is because the covariate fields are not included in the SQL queries in CClsDataFileMaker.GetPostStratByObsQuery.) [1 March 2001, LJT; Fixed 12 May 2003, LJT]
{110} You get an “Invalid or missing covariate” error message if covariables come from SubSample1 layer, even if SubSample1 is chosen as the sample definition on the estimate tab. [29 March 2001, LJT] [Checked 12 May 03 and can’t reproduce – I guess I fixed it in an earlier build]
{224} MCDS properties: Removing a covariate that has cluster size ticked doesn’t result in the Cluster Size tab restoring itself so that you can set the regression options. [Rob Williams 25 Mar 03; Fixed LJT 26 Mar 03]
{229} Variance estimates for MCDS analyses calculated incorrectly – in calculating variance component due to estimating the detection function parameters, incorrect divisor (N-1) used (should be N in this cast). Could cause error message “Internal Error 36: F0NOBS=0”. Makes only a very small difference to variance estimates. [5 May 2003; Fixed LJT 5 May 2003]
{230} Major problem with data extraction for covariate data, when the data are entered as radial distance and angle. In this case, the wrong covariate values can be assigned to the observations. When cluster size is recorded this happens only on the 1st transect; when cluster size is not recorded it happens for all transects. Similar problems happen for bootstrap data. [2 May 2003 LJT and Ana Caňadas; Fixed LJT 5 May 2003 – Recommend re-running all MCDS analyses where data recorded as radial distance and angle.]
{231} When fitting routine fails to converge on first iteration, can get a divide by 0 error in line 278 of routine PDFITCOV. [7 May 2003 Ana Caňadas; Fixed LJT 8 May 2003]
{232} Reported iteration numbers start at 0, when in the CDS engine they start at 1. [8 May 2003 LJT; Fixed LJT 8 May 2003]
{233} Can get “Internal Error 50: Mismatched strata” in analyses with strata where you estimate a quantity by sample [8 May 2003 Ana Caňadas; Fixed LJT 8 May 2003]
{235} Occasionally when bootstrapping, can get divide by zero error in subroutine INFO2 [9 May 2003 LJT; Fixed 9 May 2003 (solution was to ensure array AMUI never underflows to zero when returning from AREAS2)]
{236} If you accidentally choose a field that contains text to be a non-factor covariate, the engine crashes [8 May 2003 Charles Paxton; Fixed 12 May LJT: the NEngineInterface now checks the field type and issues a warning if it is text – didn’t want to stop the analysis completely as the field may be all numbers even if its of type ‘text’.]
Internal/Developer
{114} Need to change from internal Rnd to D4Util.RandomNum in Distance.ClsGrid.GenerateGridPoints. [18 April, 2001, LJT; Fixed 12 May 2003 LJT]
Appendix 1: Files added during Distance 4 Installation
Note - if older versions of these files are already present, they will be overwritten. If newer versions are already present, they will not be changed. (An exception to this is RichEd32.dll, which caused some incompatibility problems in test installations. This file will only be installed if one is not present on the target system.) If you selected the backup option during Setup, backups of all overwritten files will be stored in the BACKUP subdirectory, off the Distance 4 program directory. A log of all files installed is kept in the program directory in the file install.log.
Common Files \ Data Dynamics folder
Actbar2.ocx
Common files \ ESRI
Mo20.ocx
AF20.dll
Shape20.dll
pe81.dll
sg81.dll
mtch.dll
JetTable20.dll
Microsoft \ Shared Tools \ DAO
Dao2535.tlb
Dao250.dll
Jettable20.dll
Msjet35.dll
Msjint35.dll
Msjter35.dll
Msrd2x35.dll
dbajet32.dll
Windows System 32 folder
Asycfilt.dll
Comcat.dll
Comctl32.ocx
Comdlg32.ocx
Expsrv.dll
Mfc42.dll
Msvbvm60.dll
Msvcirt.dll
Msvcp60.dll
Msvcrt.dll
Msvcrt40.dll
mtch.dll
Oleaut32.dll
Oledlg.dll
OlePro32.dll
Riched32.dll
Scrrun.dll
Stdole2.tlb
vb5db.dll
vbar332.dll
vbscript.dll
VsFlex7d.ocx
ccrpdbs6.dll
tab32x30.ocx
mschrt20.ocx
richtx32.ocx
dwAXExtn.dll
Dwsdes32.dll
D4Zip.dll
PolarZip.ocx
PolarZipSpan.dll
RichEd32.dll
Splitter.ocx
Program Files \ Distance 4
Ec.exe
DistanceProject.ico
Distance.exe
D4DbEng.dll
CDlg.dll
CTmr.dll
CSDesc.ocx
LLine.ocx
LogStr.dll
LogWin.ocx
SList.ocx
PrjParams.dll
D4Map.ocx
D4Legend.ocx
DistIni.mdb
ID4NEng.dll
D4NEH.exe
D4NSvr.dll
D4CDSNEI.dll
D4.exe
D4DesNEI.dll
D4DesEng.dll
D4SvyNEI.dll
D4DFPrp.ocx
D4MDPrp.ocx
D4CDSPrp.ocx
D4DesPrp.ocx
D4SvyPrp.ocx
D4DesDet.ocx
D4SPWiz.dll
DeIDWiz.dll
DistanceLogo.jpg
ReadMe.rtf
Program Files / Distance / Help
distance.chm
Sponsors.rtf
Authors.rtf
DataEntryIntroduction.rtf
DataEntryGlobal.rtf
DataEntryStratum.rtf
DataEntryObservation.rtf
DataEntryFinished.rtf
TipOfTheDay.txt
Program Files / Distance / Sample Projects
[a number of sample project files]
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