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ASReml 2 features

Improved license management

• The license management has been upgraded

New environments and add-in modules to run ASReml

• ASReml-W a new improved windows client to run ASReml
• ASReml-S an add-in module to run ASReml in S-plus
• ASReml-R an add-in module to run ASReml in R

Expanded ANOVA options

• The Analysis of Variance table has been expanded to optionally include a conditional Wald F-statistic and in most cases, denominator degrees of freedom can be calculated allowing significance testing of the F-statistics.

Command line features

• Ability to generate a template .as from command line.
• New command line options.

Field Definition qualifiers

• No limit on storage of alphabetic factor labels.
• Ability to sort factor levels.
• Ability to read data and time fields.
• New transformations.

Pedigree and GIV files

• New .grm file extension can be used to supply an univerted matrix in sparse format which will be automatically inverted by ASReml.
• More efficient formation of the A-matrix (substantial reduction in time forming the matrix if many animals without progeny).
• New pedigree processing options.

Reading Data

• Columns or rows can be combined from different files.

Datafile line qualifiers

• Datafile line qualifiers may also be defined using an environment variable.

Linear Model Specification

• Includes facilities for fitting the family of Generalized Linear Models.
• Facilities for fitting Generalized Linear Mixed Models.
• New Model terms available

Predict

• Can control the order of terms within the prediction table.
• Facility to plot predictions.

Variance structures

• Autoregressive models have been extended to include AR3 and SAR2.
• The Matern class of isotropic covariance models is now available.

Output

• Plot of the Residuals vs Predicted values is added to the .res file with other residual statistics.
• A variogram is now reported for non-regular spatial data residuals.