Palamedes Toolbox Forum

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Please note that this is a user forum! Direct your questions/comments to the entire community of Palamedes users, not just the authors. The authors may not monitor this forum on a regular basis and directing questions at the authors may dissuade other users from helping you.

Write clear posts that include detail. For example, this post: “When I try to use PAL_pdfNormal it crashes” will likely either get no replies or replies that ask for more information. Instead, write a post like this: “I tried to use PAL_pdfNormal, but when I give the command: PAL_pdfNormal([0,1,2]) I get this error message: ‘Not enough input arguments. Error in PAL_pdfNormal (line 24)
y = exp(-1.*(x-Mean).^2./(2*SD.^2))./((2*pi).^.5*SD);’ I’m using Palamedes version x.x.x, and run Octave version x.x.x on my MAC OS version x.x.x”

If you include code that doesn’t produce the result you expected (e.g., because it generated an error) make the code as short as possible while still being self-contained. For example, instead of posting the code: “PAL_pdfNormal(xs, mymean, mysd)”, post the code: “xs = 1:10; mymean = 0; mysd = 1; PAL_pdfNormal(xs,mymean,mysd)”. In order to check whether your code is self-contained, clear all your variables (type: clear all in your command window) then copy and paste the code you plan to include in your post and see if it behaves as it did before you issued the clear all command.

If you plan to share code, respect intellectual property. Only post code that you wrote or make sure you have the right to post the code. This also goes for code you modified from another source. For example, you may not post Palamedes routines that you modified (it is okay however to post modified versions of routines that are in the PalamedesDemos folder).

Respect others. Remember that at one point in your life you knew less about the topic another user asks about than they do now.