Revision history for Perl extension Statistics::MaxEntropy. 0.4 Fri Jun 26 21:41:41 1998 - original version; created by h2xs 1.16 at that time named Stat::ME 0.5 ... Jul 3 9:32:00 1998 - first version uploaded to CPAN 0.6 Tue Jul 13 12:00:12 1998 - improved test.pl by adding input files that work - extended the POD 0.7 - migrated package to object oriented perl - placed the reading and writing of candidates outside MaxEntropy.pm (in Candidates.pm) - better handling of constant features and features that make trouble for Newton's method (in IIS) - dumping and undumping of event space (using Data::Dumper by Gurusamy Sarathy) - removed the info sub (obsolete because of the dumping facility) - documentation adapted for oo interface - adapted ME.wrapper.pl for new options (and removed the option for information files which is now obsolete) - added Monte Carlo sampling of the the event space - added support for enumeration (for small event spaces) 0.8 Tue Oct 18 12:00:12 1998 - added sparse vector module: SparseVector.pm with interface very much like Bit::Vector - Candidates.pm and MaxEntropy.pm are configurable for choosing between Statistics::SparseVector and Bit::Vector. 0.9 Sun Nov 21 20:03:21 1998 - enumeration of event space no longer stored in memory - implemented Newton iteration (IIS) according to (Abney 1997) - removed support for Bit::Vector; SparseVector runs the show now - 1.0 - SparseVector and MaxEntropy support sparse integer vectors now