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12th Edition new features

Key new features:

The GenStat Server has been upgraded to Release 12.1

• Release 12.1 includes 2 new directives, 42 new procedures and 41 new functions.

New supported file formats

• Support for Cornell ecology file formats.
• Support for MapQTL loc and map files.
• Support for R/QTL rotated comma-delimited separate genotype (csvsr) files.
• Support for Stata 10 files.

Graphics enhancements

• Ability to include oblique axes.
• Interactive tools including hotpoints to show/hide items.

New statistical and graphics menus

Regression

• Quantile regression menu for fitting quantile regression models.
• Parallel regression analyses.
• Ability to display confidence intervals for parameter estimates.

Design

• Ability to link to CycDesigN.

Analysis of Variance

• Display all standard error of differences in General Analysis of Variance menu.
• Trellis plot of means.

Multivariate Analysis

• Biplots added to principal components and canonical variates analysis menus.
• Permutation tests availible for MANOVA.

Survey Analysis

• Hot deck imputation menu for survey data.

Meta Analysis

• GGE biplot menu.
• Menu for calculating stability coefficients.

QTL Analysis

• QTL workbook for storing data structures for use within QTL menus.
• Menus for importing phenotypic and genotypic data.
• Preliminary single environment analysis of phenotypic traits using mixed model analysis.
• Summary statistics between environments menu.
• Selecting the best variance-covariance model for a set of environments.
• Display genetic map and diagnostic plots of marker genotype scores.
• Calculating genetic predictors for QTL analysis.
• QTL Genome scan menu using simple and composite interval mapping.

New spreadsheet facilities

General

• Ability to display a single 3+ way table or multiple 2+ way tables within a tabbed table.
• Highlight rows in a spreadsheet from points selected using data info within the Graphics Viewer.
• Factor divide menu allowing a set of factors to be formed with a set of levels for every level of another
  factor.
• Factor standarize menu allowing a set of factors to be standardized so that the levels or labels are the same
  for all factors.
• Shortcut function keys on the Calculate submenu of the Spread menu have been changed.

New documentation

• A Guide to the GenStat Spreadsheet.
• A Guide to Survey Analysis in GenStat.

Related pages

1. 13th Edition new features
2. 11th Edition new features
3. 10th Edition new features
4. Vision No. 15 September 2009
5. GenStat 14 released