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Key new features in ASReml 2
- The license management has been upgraded
- 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
- 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.
- Ability to generate a template .as from command line.
- New command line options.
- No limit on storage of alphabetic factor labels.
- Ability to sort factor levels.
- Ability to read data and time fields.
- New transformations.
- 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.
- Columns or rows can be combined from different files.
- Datafile line qualifiers may also be defined using an environment variable.
- Includes facilities for fitting the family of Generalized Linear Models.
- Facilities for fitting Generalized Linear Mixed Models.
- New Model terms available
- Can control the order of terms within the prediction table.
- Facility to plot predictions.
- Autoregressive models have been extended to include AR3 and SAR2.
- The Matern class of isotropic covariance models is now available.
- 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.
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