Installation guide

Summary of R2006a New Features

Statistics Toolbox

• New parametric methods for copulas including

copulacdf,

copulapdf,

copulaparam, copularnd, and copulastat functions

• New Markov chain sampler algorithms — Metropolis-Hasting (mhsample)

and slice sampling (slicesample) random number generators

• New random number generators for the Pearson (pearsrnd) and Johnson

(johnsrnd) systems of distributions

• New multivariate normal (mvncdf) and t (mvtcdf) cumulative distribution

fiinctions

• New Bootstrap confidence interval functionality (bootci)

• New functionality for jackknife estimation (jackknife)

• New Durbin-Watson test functionality (dwtest)

• New functionality for finding fi"actional factorial designs (f racf actgen)

• Enhanced anovan support for nested factors and continuous factors

• Enhanced time series data support for xbarplot, schart, and ewmaplot

functions

• Robust fitting enhancements for nlinf it, nlparci, nlpredci, and

robustf it functions

• D-optimal design enhancements for daugment, dcovary, rowexch, candexch,

candgen, cordexch, and x2f x functions

• New and updated demos

System Identification Toolbox

• balred function introduced for model reduction

• Search direction for minimizing criteria can be computed by adaptive

Gauss-Newton method

• Maximum number of bisections used by line search increased