v0.12.0

Release Notes v0.12.0 - October 2020

Overall changes

• The regularization operator matrices regoperator now include the edges of the distribution (#38). Now the smoothness penalty is imposed on the distribution edges avoiding the accumulation of distribution mass at the edges of r.

• The interface for defining dipolar pathways has been simplified (#41). For example, a signal with two dipolar pathways had to be defined as pathways = [[Lam0,np.nan], [lam1,T0]]. Now the unmodulated pathway can just be defined by its amplitude and does not require the use of np.nan, e.g. pathways = [Lam0, [lam1,T0]].

• The project version control has been switched from the Git-flow to the GitHub-flow design. The default branch has been switched from master to main, which is now always production-ready. All new contributions are merged into main exclusively by pull requests.

• The dependency on the lambda parameter has been removed from all phenomenological background models, and kept only for physical models (#43). Their interface with dipolarbackground and dipolarkernel have been updated accordingly.

New features:

• diststats: New function to calculate different statistical quantities of the distance distribution and their corresponding uncertainties (#38).

• bootan: Introduced the option cores to parallelize the bootstrapping using multiple CPU.

Specific changes

• bg_homfractal:

  • Corrected behavior of the model. For d=3 the model returned wrong values, and for d~=3 the model resulted in an error.

• UncertQuant:

  • Fixed bug when propagating uncertainty to scalar functions.

• deerload:

  • Fixed UTF-8 error when loading certain spectrometer files in MacOS (#30)

• fitsignal:

  • The fitted scale of the signal is now properly calculated when fitting fully parametric signals.
  • Fixed error occuring when fitting a dipolar evolution function with a non-parametric distribution.

• selregparam:

  • Fixed bug occuring when requesting the lc or lr selection methods.

• regparamange:

  • An error occuring at the BLAS/LAPLACK error ocurring under certain conditions in MacOS and Ubuntu is now handled to avoid a crash.