Release Notes for JMP 12.

Release Notes for JMP 12.2

JMP12.2isageneralmaintenancereleasethatcontainsenhancementsandbugfixes.Reproducible
crashesandnumericissueshavebeencorrected.Applyingthismaintenancereleaseisrecommended
forallsites.

New Features

TheNew SQL Query()functionsupportsaVersionargumenttoindicatecompatibilitywithJMP

versions.Forexample,New SQL Query( Version( 130 )...)printsacompatibilitymessagetothe
logandpreventsthequeryfromopeningin12.2.

The demoElasticNetAlphaLambda.jslanddemoElasticNetAlphaLambda2.jslsamplescriptsfor
GeneralizedRegressionareavailable.ThescriptsillustratetheshrinkageeffectofvaryingAlpha
andthetuningparameter,Lambda,intheelasticnetfitforasinglepredictor.Thescriptsare
installedintheJMPSamples/Scriptsfolder.

The<<Move Tab(m, n)messageforTab Box()movesthetabfrommpositiontonposition.

DocumentationandonlineHelpareavailableinJapaneseandSimplifiedChinese.

TheSimplifiedChineselocalizationsofFittingLinearModels,SpecializedModels,Multivariate
Methods,andReliabilityandSurvivalMethodsarepreliminaryfor12.2.

General Improvements
Axes

LabelorientationoptionsareavailableagainintheAxisdatatablecolumnproperty.

JMPnolongerfreezeswhenthenumberoftickmarksistoolargefortherangeoftheaxis.

TheAxisfontpreferenceissupportedagain.

OnanaxisinGraphBuilder,categoricaltickmarksarenolongerhidden.

Column Switcher

TheColumnSwitchertriestopreventvariableswitchesthatproduceincorrectgraphs.

Databases

TheClouderaImpalaODBCdriverissupportedfordatabaseconnections.

Automaticandmanualjoinshavebeenenhanced.Youcaneditajoinconditionasexpectedwhile
theAutojoinDatabaseTablesfeatureisturnedoff.Autojoinworkswhenyouaddathirdtable
thathasforeignkeys.Autojoinworksforcompoundprimaryandforeignkeys.Youcanjointables
oncolumnsthathavevariablesofdifferentdatatypes.Andjoinconditionsthatspecifyan
inequalityoperator(>,>=,<,<=)arenowhandledcorrectly.

InQueryBuilder,thePromptonRunoptionsworkasexpectedafteryouchangethefiltertype.

InQueryBuilder,tablesimportedfromMicrosoftAccessjoincorrectly.

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Multipleconnectionstothesamedatasourcearenotpermitted.

Compositeprimarykeysareshownasprimarykeys,notuniquekeys.

Data Filter

Thedatafilterforacontinuouscolumnwithalessthan(<)operatorrestorescorrectlywhensaved
tothedatatableandrerun.Previously,the<operatorwasrestoredaslessthanorequalto(<=).

Data Tables

Whenyouupdateatablewhereamaintablecharactercolumnisemptyorhasshortstringsand
theupdatetablecolumnhasverylongstrings,thevaluesarenowupdatedcorrectly.Thisproblem
couldoccurwitheitherUpdateorJoinwiththeUpdateoption.

Therightclickmenuworksasexpectedafteryoupastealargebackgroundimageintoareport.

Youcannolongermovealockedbackgroundimageinareportthathasbeenclosedandreopened.

InGraphBuilderwhenusingBygroups,theLassotoolselectsallpointsthatyoudrawabox
around.Previously,onlyasmallnumberofpointswereselected.

Thelabelforanexcludedrowappearswhenyouplaceyourcursoroverthepoint.

Youcanpastecustomizedgraphcomponentswhenvariablesaredefinedasglobal.

OnWindows,graphicspastedfromJMPintoMicrosoftPaintarepastedintact.

Graphics

Import and Export

WhenajournalthatcontainslargegraphsisexportedasaPNG,eachgraphiscompletely
converted.

JMPonMacintoshnolongerfreezesifacolumnheadercontainsalinefeedcharacterandthe
graphisexportedasaMicrosoftPowerPointfile.

WhenyoupasteaContingencytableintoaMicrosoftPowerPointfile,theentiretableispasted.

ColumndatatypesarecorrectwhentheExcelImportWizardimportsaworksheetthatcontains
hiddenrows.

WhenyouexportareportasanAdobeFlashfileonMacintosh,thewebpageopensinthedefault
browser.

DatacanbeimportedfromMinitabversion17.

WhenareportthatcontainsthedefaultJapanesefontMairyoissavedasaPDFfile,textinthe
reportnolongeroverlaps.

Macintosh

Analysesareperformedonlyontheactivedatatable.

WhenyouopenatextfileusingtheOpen()function,theOpenAsbehaviorthatyouchose
interactivelyisnowhonored.

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Sample Data Tables

TheOnOpenscripthasbeenremovedfromtheFailure3ID.jmpsampledatatable.Awarningthat
thescriptrannolongerappearswhenyouopenthedatatable.

TheMakeBinningFormulautilityworksasexpectedforallcomputerlocalesettings.

TheJapaneseversionofJMPdoesnotfreezeafteryoudoubleclickadatatableandthenselectan
optionfromapopupmenu.

Utilities

Windows

Statistics

Whenarandomseedisdivisibleby8,192,theanalysisresultsaredifferent.Previously,seedsthat
weredivisibleby8,192producedsomenonrandomresults,particularlyforverylargeseeds.

Bootstrap

TheBootstrapfeaturenowcorrectlysupportsanalysesthatuseaFreqvariable.

Categorical

TheRelaunchDialogredtriangleoptionworksasexpectedwhencomparisongroupsare
specified.

ThevaluesfortheTop2BoxandBottom2BoxarecorrectintheCategoricalreport.

TheResponseroleisnolongermissingwhenyourelaunchthelaunchwindow.

TheSharechartappearsinsavedscripts.

Forstructuredtables,thecomparisontestsrunwhenyouacceptthedefaultcomparisonsfor
SpecifyComparisonGroups.

SupercategoriesareincludedinthereportwhenyourequestcellcomparisonsusingCompare
EachCellorSpecifyComparisonGroups.

Whenyouassignamultipleresponseitemtothecolumnsinastructuredtable,aFirstOrderRao
Scottcorrectionisappliedtoallstatisticaltests.

TheRaoScottcorrectionusesthecorrectdegreesoffreedom.

Control Chart Builder

MultipleYswiththeEventChoosernolongercreatesmultiplecharttypes.

GraphsinControlChartBuilderarecorrectlysizedwhenexportedasajournalorpastedinto
anotherdocument.

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Control Charts

Thecorrecterrormessageappearsinthelogwhenbothaphaseandaconstantsamplesizeare
specifiedforapchart.

Degradation

WhenyouenterthetimevalueinthePredictionSettingswindow,thevalueshowsupinthenote
underthePredictionPlot.

Design of Experiments

TheMixturecolumnpropertyissupportedevenwhenthefactordoesnothavealowerlimitof
zero.

TheDialogscriptsavedtothedesigndatatableinDefinitiveScreeningincludestherandomseed.

Distribution

Thediagonalreferencelineappearsbetweentheconfidenceintervallinesforhighlyskeweddata.

Fit Model
GeneralizedRegression

MultipleYvariablesaresupportedinoneGeneralizedRegressionreport.Thesamemodeling
distributionmustbefittoallresponsevariables.However,youcanfitseparatedistributionsto
differentresponsevariablesinascript.

Whenthedatacontainsingularities,detailsofthosesingularitiesarenowincludedinthe
GeneralizedRegressionreport.

ThesavedformulafortheZIGammatakesintoaccountthezeroinflationparameterforthemean
andthevarianceformula.

MixedModels

TheResidualQuantilePlothistogramnolongershowsdatafromhiddenrows.

ThesavedcolumnfortheStandardErrorofPredictednolongershowsmissingvaluesforrows
thathavemissingresponses.

PartialLeastSquares

WhenyousaveapredictionformulainthePLSpersonalityandthenusetheGraph>Profiler
option,theprofilershowstheBlockeffects.

StandardLeastSquares

Thesavedformulasforstandarderrorswithmixturecubiceffectsarecorrect.

pvaluesarecorrectintheLSMeansDifferencesTukeysHSDtable.

AnerrorappearswhentheDurbinWatsonpvaluecannotbecalculated.

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ThecaretsintheEffectSummaryreport,whichindicatetheeffectsthatmoresignificanthigher
ordereffectscontain,arenotaffectedbytheorderoftermsintheConstructModelEffectsbox.
Previously,lowerordereffectshadtobeaddedbeforehigherordereffects.

Stepwise

IftheSumofSquaresError(SSE)isclosetozero,theFvalueismissing.IftheSSEislessthanor
equaltozero,theFvalueiscodedas999999.

BlankTotalrowsandcolumnsnolongerappearintheContingencytable.

Rowsinwhichthevalueofacolumnis0areexcludedfromthequantilescalculationsinOneway.

Inawiderowofplots,theNormalQuantilelegendappearstotherightoftheplotratherthan
belowit.

Fit Y by X

Life Distribution

ConfidencebandsforparametricdistributionsareupdatedwhenyouselectChangeConfidence
Level.

Thehazardoverlayshadingiscorrect.

Scrollingissueshavebeenresolved.

Multivariate

TheWardsdistancemethodisappliedtoclustersintheMultivariateplatform(ratherthanSingle
Linkage).

Multivariate Control Chart

OutofcontrolpointsareassignedcorrectlywhenaByvariableisincluded.

Themaximumlikelihoodestimatesofcovariancematrices(dividingbythesamplesizeratherthan
thesamplesizeminusone)arenowusedinthecalculationofthelikelihoodratioteststatistic.

TheNeuralplatformsupportstheMissingValueCodescolumnproperty.

InBootstrapForest,theCumulativeMisclassificationRate(MCR)correspondstotheoverallMCR.

Neural

Partition

Principal Components

Theestimationmethodthatyouoriginallyspecifiedismaintainedwhenyourelaunchananalysis.

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Process Capability

ThemenuitemnameforProcessCapabilityhaschangedinJapanese.InJapaneseJMP12.0and
JMP12.1,themenuitemnamewasProcessCapabilityAnalysis.InJapaneseJMP12.2,themenu
nameisProcessCapability.IfyousavedthescriptforthisplatforminJapaneseJMP12.1orJMP
12.2,thescriptdoesnotworkinJMP12.2orfuturereleasesofJMP.Notethatscriptsaresavedin
Englishaccordingtothedefaultpreferencesetting.

TheCustomProfilerappliestheImportancevalueassignedintheResponseLimitscolumn
property.

TheDefectProfilerandSimulatorcorrectlyinterpretmixturecomponents.

Profilers

Response Screening

WhenyouhidetheQualityEngineeringgroupintheMenupreferences,theResponseScreening
platformisstillavailableintheAnalyze>Modelingmenu.

Time Series

WhenyoucreateanewfitintheModelComparisonreport,theInterceptsettingishonored.
Selectinganddeselectingtheinputseriesworkasexpected.

Scripting

IntheCategoricalplatform,theResponses()argumentsareevaluated.

TheWhere()stringargumentisincludedwhengeneratedfromanencryptedscript.

TheLine Style()argumentisnolongerresetafterdrawingdashedlines.

As SQL Expr()interpretsIs Missing()asISNULLinsteadofNULLIF.

WhenyouspecifymultipleYcolumnsusingColumn()inaControlChartBuilderscript,allY
chartsarecreated.

Normal Biv Distribution()returnsthecorrectvalues.Previously,whenxwasmuchlargerthan

y,andthecorrelationwaspositiveandcloseto1,thefunctionreturned0ratherthan0.5.

Tocenterachilddisplaybox,sendthe<<Horizontal Alignmentmessagetothechilddisplaybox.
Thedefaultvalueisleft,oryoucanspecifycenterorright.

Toignoreformulaevaluationerrorsinacolumn,sendthe<<Ignore Errorsmessagetothe
column.Thecellvalueissettomissingwhenaformulaerroroccurs.

DataissuccessfullysortedandreplacedafterawindowthatcontainsaFilterColSelectorisclosed.

The<<Scalemessageinasavedscriptsupportslegacyscalenames.(InJMP11,somescalenames
changed.)

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