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10th Edition new features

Key new features in GenStat for Windows® - Tenth Edition

The GenStat Server has been upgraded to Release 10.1

• Release 10.1 includes 11 new directives, 34 new procedures.

New add-in facilities

• Create custom dialogs add-ins using GenStat resource language

New supported file formats

• Support for Excel 2007 file format.

Graphics enhancements

• Barcharts with error bars
• Ability to supply files to customize the graphics environment
• Interactively edit point labels on graph
• Zoom-in or open frame in a new window for graphs in multiple frame arrangement

New statistical and graphics menus

Bayesian analysis

• Run WinBUGS or OpenBUGS from GenStat in batch mode using scripts.

Graphics

• Species accumulation curve menu for producing species accumulation and rarefaction curves.

Summary statistics

• Weighting variable can be specified in Correlations menu.

Statistical tests

• Cochran-Mantel-Haenszel test menu.
• W-test for Normality menu for calculating a Shapiro-Wilk test to assess for Normality.
• Test for homogeneity menu for calculating Bartlett’s test for homogeneity of variances.
• Weighting variable can be specified in t-test menu.

Mixed Models (REML)

• F statistics for fixed terms in REML.
• Plots of one- or two-way tables of means from REML.
• Negative-binomial distribution and logratio link in generalized linear mixed models

Repeated measures

• Linear regression with correlated errors menu to fit regression models to repeated measurements data.
• Standard curves regression with correlated errors menu to fit nonlinear curves to repeated measurements data.
• Residual plots and further output available for repeated measures analysis of variance.
• Negative-binomial distribution and logratio link in generalized estimating equations

Survey analysis

• Generalized linear models for survey data menu.

Meta analysis

• Meta analysis for individual trials menu for combining estimates from different trials.

New spreadsheet facilities

Large spreadsheets

• Data in large spreadsheets can be opened as read-only allowing faster loading and viewing.