Cleaned up comments around use of factory method (now not required) for constructing discrete calculators

java/source/infodynamics/measures/discrete/ActiveInformationCalculator.java

@@ -32,10 +32,9 @@ public class ActiveInformationCalculator {
 	private double log_base = 0;
 	
 	/**
-	 * User to create new instances through this factory method.
-	 * This allows us to return an efficient calculator for
-	 * base 2, for example, without the user needing to have 
-	 * knowledge of this.
+	 * User was formerly forced to create new instances through this factory method.
+	 * Retained for backwards compatibility.
+	 * 
 	 * @param base
 	 * @param history
 	 * 
@@ -45,7 +44,7 @@ public class ActiveInformationCalculator {
 		return new ActiveInformationCalculator(base, history);
 	}
 	
-	protected ActiveInformationCalculator(int base, int history) {
+	public ActiveInformationCalculator(int base, int history) {
 		super();
 		
 		this.base = base;

java/source/infodynamics/measures/discrete/ApparentTransferEntropyCalculator.java

@@ -36,10 +36,9 @@ public class ApparentTransferEntropyCalculator extends ContextOfPastMeasureCalcu
 	protected int startObservationTime = 1;
 	
 	/**
-	 * User to create new instances through this factory method.
-	 * This allows us to return an efficient calculator for
-	 * base 2, for example, without the user needing to have 
-	 * knowledge of this.
+	 * User was formerly forced to create new instances through this factory method.
+	 * Retained for backwards compatibility.
+	 * 
 	 * @param base
 	 * @param history
 	 * 

java/source/infodynamics/measures/discrete/BlockEntropyCalculator.java

@@ -28,10 +28,8 @@ public class BlockEntropyCalculator extends EntropyCalculator {
 	protected int base_power_blocksize = 0;
 
 	/**
-	 * User to create new instances through this factory method.
-	 * This allows us to return an efficient calculator for
-	 * base 2, for example, without the user needing to have 
-	 * knowledge of this. (This functionality is now obselete though)
+	 * User was formerly forced to create new instances through this factory method.
+	 * Retained for backwards compatibility.
 	 * 
 	 * @param blocksize
 	 * @param base

java/source/infodynamics/measures/discrete/CompleteTransferEntropyCalculator.java

@@ -53,10 +53,9 @@ public class CompleteTransferEntropyCalculator extends InfoMeasureCalculator {
 	protected int startObservationTime = 1;
 	
 	/**
-	 * User to create new instances through this factory method.
-	 * This allows us to return an efficient calculator for
-	 * base 2, for example, without the user needing to have 
-	 * knowledge of this.
+	 * User was formerly forced to create new instances through this factory method.
+	 * Retained for backwards compatibility.
+	 * 
 	 * @param base
 	 * @param history
 	 * @param numOtherInfoContributors

java/source/infodynamics/measures/discrete/EntropyCalculator.java

@@ -23,10 +23,9 @@ public class EntropyCalculator extends InfoMeasureCalculator
 	protected int[] stateCount = null; // Count for i[t]
 
 	/**
-	 * User to create new instances through this factory method.
-	 * This allows us to return an efficient calculator for
-	 * base 2, for example, without the user needing to have 
-	 * knowledge of this. (This is obselete though)
+	 * User was formerly forced to create new instances through this factory method.
+	 * Retained for backwards compatibility.
+	 * 
 	 * @param base
 	 * @param blocksize
 	 * 

java/source/infodynamics/measures/discrete/EntropyRateCalculator.java

@@ -17,10 +17,9 @@ package infodynamics.measures.discrete;
 public class EntropyRateCalculator extends SingleAgentMeasureInContextOfPastCalculator {
 
 	/**
-	 * User to create new instances through this factory method.
-	 * This allows us to return an efficient calculator for
-	 * base 2, for example, without the user needing to have 
-	 * knowledge of this. (This is obselete anyway)
+	 * User was formerly forced to create new instances through this factory method.
+	 * Retained for backwards compatibility.
+	 * 
 	 * @param base
 	 * @param history
 	 * 

java/source/infodynamics/measures/discrete/MultiInformationCalculator.java

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ public class MultiInformationCalculator extends InfoMeasureCalculator {
 	private boolean checkedFirst = false;
 
 	/**
-	 * Null constructor
+	 * Constructor
 	 *
 	 */
 	public MultiInformationCalculator(int base, int numVars) {

java/source/infodynamics/measures/discrete/SeparableInfoCalculator.java

@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ public class SeparableInfoCalculator extends ContextOfPastMeasureCalculator {
 	/**
 	 * User to create new instances through this factory method.
 	 * This allows us to return an efficient calculator for
-	 * base 2, for example, without the user needing to have 
+	 * particular situations without the user needing to have 
 	 * knowledge of this.
 	 * @param base
 	 * @param history