GenStat

Genstat

Genstat

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Genstat (General Statistics) is a statistical software package with data analysis capabilities, particularly in the field of agriculture.[2][3] It was developed in 1968 by the Rothamsted Research in the United Kingdom and was designed to provide modular design, linear mixed models[4][page needed] and graphical functions.[5] It was developed and distributed by VSN International (VSNi),[6] which was owned by The Numerical Algorithms Group and Rothamsted Research.

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Genstat is used in a number of research areas, including plant science, forestry, animal science, and medicine.[3]

See also

  • ASReml: a statistical package which fits linear mixed models to large data sets with complex variance models, using Residual Maximum Likelihood (REML)

References

  1. [1]
    "What's New". genstat.kb.vsni.co.uk.
  2. [2]
    "AGRONOMIX Software inc., Software for plant breeding". Archived from the original on 2017-02-06.
  3. [3]
    "GenStat (General Statistical)". The University of Warwick.
  4. [4]
    Mixed Models and Multilevel Data Structures in Agriculture.
  5. [5]
    Gower, John C. (2015). "The Development of Statistical Computing at Rothamsted". International Statistical Review. 83 (3): 357–370. doi:10.1111/insr.12093. ISSN 0306-7734. JSTOR 44162829. S2CID 122657943.
  6. [6]
    "Statistics software success for spinout company VSN international". Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. 6 November 2023.

Further reading

Payne, R. W. (2009). "Genstat". Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Statistics. 1 (2): 255–258. doi:10.1002/wics.32. S2CID 247695787.


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