-------- Original Message -------- Subject: MorphoJ update -- important for existing users Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:29:15 -0500 From: Chris Klingenberg <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Organization: University of Manchester To: [email protected] Dear morphometricians I just have uploaded a new version of MorphoJ to my lab web site -- version 1.02a. It is available for downloading from: http://www.flywings.org.uk/MorphoJ_page.htm Above all, this version contains the fix for the bug that I reported in my last posting to Morphmet, concerning the residuals from pooled within-group regression. All users who have used residuals from pooled within-group regressions in their work should download the new version and repeat the regression analyses (and discard the old analyses; in the Project Tree window, using 'Remove Item' in the pop-up menu of those regression analyses). I sincerely apologize for the inconvenience that this may cause you. The new version also contains a new method, 'Residuals/Predicted Values From Other Regression' in the Covariation menu of the program. This enables the user to use a regression to compute residuals and predicted values for a dataset different from the one used to set up the regression. For instance, a user might be interested in the role of ontogenetic scaling for the diversification in a group of organisms. To characterize ontogenetic allometry, a regression of shape on centroid size is done for data of growth series in one or more species (if there are several species, this would be done by a pooled within-species regression). To look at the diversification in the whole group, this regression would then be applied to a dataset of adult variation in all species of the group. In addition, the new version also contains a number of updates that already were available in the last posted version of MorphoJ (1.01c), but which I neglected to announce on Morphmet. For instance, it is possible to create a new dataset from multiple input files (text, NTSys, etc.), as long as the dimensionality and number of landmarks agree. A number of other changes removed unnecessary restrictions for the choice of data in particular analyses, etc. I'd like to thank the many people who have made comments and suggestions on the features in MorphoJ. For the current series of updates, Emma Sherratt and Andrea Cardini were particularly helpful. Best wishes, Chris -- *************************************************************** Christian Peter Klingenberg Faculty of Life Sciences The University of Manchester Michael Smith Building Oxford Road Manchester M13 9PT United Kingdom Telephone: +44 161 275 3899 Fax: +44 161 275 5082 E-mail: [email protected] Web: http://www.flywings.org.uk Skype: chris_klingenberg *************************************************************** -- For now, new message AND replies should be sent to: [email protected] /* Replies will be sent to the list. */ For more information visit http://www.morphometrics.org
