Anyone using Octave for EEM fluorescence data and/or parallel factor analysis?

[Swift, Ted J.]

Hi, all,

I'm investigating using Octave as an alternative to Matlab to run Rasmus Bro's "N-Way Toolbox" of parallel factor analysis (PARAFAC) tools to analyze spectrofluorescence data. I've just gone ahead and downloaded Octave 3.2.4 and will forge ahead with figuring out how to get started.

 

But I'd appreciate advice about any recent publications about Octave, and specifically any work you may know of on Octave application to excitation-emission matrix (EEM, a 2-D matrix) data analysis. I've been Googling around, and I've read Alsberg and Hagen's 2006 paper, but I haven't seen anything substantial more recent than that. I'm hopeful that one or more of you might have some inside scoop on recent applications.

Thanks.

-Ted

 

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