Sirius

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Sirius version 6.0

• Sirius is a software package for multivariate
  data analysis and experimental design.
• Application areas
• Spectral analysis and calibration
• Industrial process analysis and optimisation
• Quality control
• Marketing and insurance analysis

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Sirius 6.0 - New Features

• Full 32 bit application , Windows95 and NT 3.51
  or higher
• Larger matrices, improved speed
• New interface, featuring Windows95 like interface
• New import features, Excel,Lotus. Matlab, JCAMP,
  EChip
• Improved spreadsheet editor for raw data,
  transformed data and subset editing
• New graphics including 3D
• New graphical editor
• New Experimental Design package
• continuing.

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Sirius 6.0 - New Features

• New reporting facility including easy transfer to
  other Windows application
• Improved pre-processing facilities
• New documentation
• Sirius User Guide
• Sirius Reference Guide
• Sirius Tutorials, 8 tutorials covering the major
  areas of MDA
• New Help system

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Sirius 6.0 - Methods

• PCA - Principal Component Analysis
• PLS - Partial Least Squares Regression
• PCR - Principal Component Regression
• SIMCA - Soft Independent Modeling of Class
  Analogies
• MOP - Marker Object Projections
• MVP - Marker Variable Projections

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Sirius 6.0 - Experimental Design

• Fully integrated with all other parts of the
  application
• Methods
• Fractional,
• Full factorial
• Central Composite Designs.

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Sirius 6.0 - Pre-Processing
Standard Transform Options
Special Transform Options

• Roots
• Logarithmic
• Block normalising
• Normalising using internal standard
• Log-centering

• Absorbance to reflectance
• Absorbance to Kubelka-Munck
• Reflectance to Absorbance
• Multiplicative Scatter Correction
• Savitzky-Golay differentiation

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Sirius 6.0 - Scaling

• Standardising
• Division by standard deviation constant
• Block standardising
• Division by mean
• Division by mean constant
• Set your own weights

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Sirius 6.0 - Editor

• Spreadsheet editor for manipulation of data
• Raw data
• Transformed data
• Subset
• Pre-inspection of dataset/subset
• Univariate statistics
• PCA
• Correlation analysis
• Graphics, bivariate, normal plot, histogram,
  dendrogram and more

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Sirius 6.0 - Graphics

• 2D raw/transformed data
• 3D raw(transformed data
• Score and loading plot
• Biplot
• Score dendrogram
• Score vs. objects
• Loadings vs. variables
• Residuals
• Covariance graphs
• Predicted vs. measured response
• Regression coefficients
• Target coefficients
• Contour plot

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Sirius 6.0 - Software Interaction

• ASCII
• Excel (XLS)
• Lotus 1-2-3 (WKx)
• JCAMP
• MATLAB
• LTIndusties
• Echip

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Sirius 6.0 - Requirements

• Personal computer(486SX or higher) running
• Windows 95 or Windows NT or higher
• 16 MB of memory (32MB recommended)
• 8 MB of free hard-disk space required

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SirEnviron version 1.0

• An integrated Application for
• Environmental Studies.
• Focus
• Monitoring
• Survey design
• Connecting Biology and Chemistry

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SirEnviron version 1.0

• Visual interface
• User-friendly, using nomenclature like stations,
  species ..
• Inspecting dataset
• Defining reference set
• Graphics, including contour plot
• Windows95 and NT

CDI index
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SirEnviron version 1.0

• Includes existing methods like
• Various univariate indexes
• Shannon-Wiener - Diversity
• Peilouss J - Evenness
• Hurlbert ES(100) - Deversity
• Dendrogram
• Bray-Curtis and Eucledan
• Non-metric Multi-Dimensional Scaling (MDS)

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SirEnviron version 1.0

• Includes new methods like
• PCA, CA, SIMCA, Score Dendrogram.
• SIMCA - Community Disturbance Index (CDI)
• Connecting Biology and Chemistry using PLS