SCW reviews GenStat 12

Felix Grant reviews GenStat 12th edition in Scientific Computing World.
“The 12th edition of GenStat for Windows has been out for a few months, now, but I’ve been examining it in the wild (so to speak) rather than on a review bench. One reason for this has been an upcoming SCW feature, which [...]

GenStat expert puts ACCI students through their paces

To ensure that its second-year PhD students acquire the necessary skills to perform quality research, UKZN’s African Centre for Crop Improvement (ACCI) recently invited Dr Roger Payne from VSN International in the UK to run an advanced biometry course on GenStat.

VSNi at ICOTS8

Statistical software for teaching: relevant & appropriate
Students need to have a good grounding in statistics given how important it is many disciplines — scientific or otherwise. But it isn’t just the statistics that is important, it’s statistical software. Computer hardware and software developments together with the accessibility of data have accelerated the need for students [...]

Vision No. 17 December 2009

As the decade ends, VSNi would like to take this opportunity to thank all our customers, supporters and associates. Thanks to support and help from our friends around the world we have been able to continue to provide world-class statistical and data analysis software tools. We celebrate the continued development of our software including ASReml [...]

Notes from afar

Learn more about our efforts supporting developing countries from our recent trip to Vietnam.

Analysing data just got better with the release of ASReml 3

ASReml 3, the outstanding data analysis software designed for fitting linear mixed models is now available for download.
Already widely used by scientists and researchers in the biosciences the new procedures and functionality added at version 3 will further extend ASReml’s ability to analyse large datasets and complex statistical models. Since its original [...]

Scientific Computing review GenStat

Statistics and genetics package features very nifty tools for life scientists
Review by John A. Wass, Ph.D.
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The Getting Started manual describes this software as “…a complete and comprehensive statistics package…” but, actually, there is a lot more to it. Most packages these days have a variety of statistical tests with diagnostics and options, graphics, data handling [...]

Elephants and Bees – the latest news

For those of you following the work of Lucy King and Save The Elephants – why not catch up on the latest news?

New Events for 2009

We’ve added more events for 2009, why not take a look and let’s see if we can meet?

Scientific Computing World reviews GenStat 11th Edition

“GenStat is one of those packages with a reliable and road mapped programme of regular updates. GenStat upgrades have never been less than thorough, stable, significant and workmanlike progressions for one of the industry’s most serious packages; this is no exception.” So says Felix Grant.
He goes on to comment on the 26 new procedures in [...]