BCIMA

Well, it should be no surprise that BCIMA works and is in the package. It was working before and I modified it. A couple notes:

1. It really is much easier to do business with the new objects vice the older method. It is much more logical too.
2. I whipped up a sample output image. It looks good, but it also looks like I can’t get it to upload to mediafire right now. As soon as I do I’ll post the link here.
3. Speaking of what the image revealed, a 250 point chain gave a very nice estimate with a pretty off-center source point.

Once I get the image uploaded, I’m going to be pretty happy.

EDIT: Here’s the image. The red circle is the real center, the green the mean of the chain.

As for next steps, starting to work on the ABCIMA software is a big goal. I also need to run the check package utility on my most recent version in order to see if I can figure out what if anything makes it unhappy so I can get to work fixing those issues for eventual CRAN upload. After ABCIMA it’ll be time to get cracking on a couple hundred runs of IMA, BCIMA, and ABCIMA complete with time and error statistics for the requisite comparative analysis of the different approaches to this little problem.