{"id":1604,"date":"2009-08-14T13:15:35","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T12:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=1604"},"modified":"2009-08-14T13:15:35","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T12:15:35","slug":"genstat-12-1-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=1604","title":{"rendered":"Genstat 12.1 released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vsni.co.uk\/software\/genstat\/\">Genstat<\/a>, a general-purpose statistics package that seems to have a good following in the biosciences has been upgraded to version 12.1.\u00a0 A selection from the &#8216;whats new?&#8217; section:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Release 12.1 includes 2 new directives, 42 new procedures and 41 new functions.<\/li>\n<li>Support for Cornell ecology file formats.<\/li>\n<li>Support for MapQTL loc and map files.<\/li>\n<li>Support for R\/QTL rotated comma-delimited separate genotype (csvsr) files.<\/li>\n<li>Support for Stata 10 files.<\/li>\n<li>Quantile regression menu for fitting quantile regression models.<\/li>\n<li>Parallel regression analyses.<\/li>\n<li>Ability to display confidence intervals for parameter estimates.<\/li>\n<li>Display all standard error of differences in General Analysis of Variance menu.<\/li>\n<li>Trellis plot of means.<\/li>\n<li>Biplots added to principal components and canonical variates analysis menus.<\/li>\n<li>Permutation tests availible for MANOVA.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Check out the full list of new features <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vsni.co.uk\/software\/genstat\/12th-edition-new-features\/\">over at VSNI&#8217;s website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since I am not a statistician and I don&#8217;t support statistics software, I hadn&#8217;t heard about Genstat until fairly recently but they seem to be a very cool company.\u00a0 Take a look at the free <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vsni.co.uk\/software\/genstat-discovery\/\">Genstat Discovery Edition<\/a> for example which is for use by not-for-profit research organizations, charities and educational institutes based in the developing world.<\/p>\n<p>Commercial software companies who give something back to the community in ways like this always earn respect in my eyes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genstat, a general-purpose statistics package that seems to have a good following in the biosciences has been upgraded to version 12.1.\u00a0 A selection from the &#8216;whats new?&#8217; section: Release 12.1 includes 2 new directives, 42 new procedures and 41 new functions. Support for Cornell ecology file formats. Support for MapQTL loc and map files. Support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math-software","category-statistics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3swhs-pS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1604"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1606,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions\/1606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}