CAMA enhancement requests

On this page I collect enhancement requests, a todo list for future enhancements. In effect this is the future history file for CAMA. I make no guarantees as to when these features will arrive, although you can speed things up by submitting code.

• Currently the HDF field names as specified in configuration file are case sensitive, and the error message isn’t too clear if you make a mistake. Edward Celarier suggested a solution to this, which may be implemented in a future release. Basically he suggested to pull all field names from the HDF-5 file, turn them into upper case (and do the same with the fields as specified in the configuration file), and figure out which field the user wants from there.

  I don’t think I’ll implement this. Once you know that the configuration file is case sensitive, you know exactly what to expect. The solution proposed by Ed used h5_parse, and this is slow, even when not reading in the data. Recursing through the resulting structure is not pretty either. Instead I’ve improved the error message.

• The regression coefficients we calculate at the moment ignore errors in the independent variable. This is the cause of the assymmetry in the regressions coefficients, in particular the slope: b_ij ≠ 1/b_ji. We have found a mathematical treatment to correct for this, and produce a fit where it is assumed that there are errors in both variables.

  I will implement this, I just don’t know when.

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