What’s new in Genstat for Windows 23rd Edition

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  New Features in Genstat 23rd Edition

Summary

• New 2D Trellis Plot of Groups menu has been added and is used in the discrimination menus.
• New Mosaic Plot menu has been added to plot tables of counts.
• New Principal Components Clustering menu added for large datasets.
• New multivariate prediction menus Random Classification Forest,
  Random Regression Forest and K Nearest Neighbours.
• New specialist regression menus Validation of Predictions and
  Circular Regression.
• The ability to allow for censored observations in Poisson distributions with a log-link has been added.
• Improved handling of grouped data in Linear Regression menu.
• Support for two new skewed distributions added to the Distributions menu.
• A Games menu for Bingo,
  Fruit Machine, Life and Noughts and Crosses
  added to the Data menu.

The Genstat Server has been upgraded to Release 23.1

• Release 23.1 includes 3 new directives and 27 new procedures.

New menus

• Principal Components Clustering menu
  to provide clustering for very large data sets.
• Random Classification Forest and
  Random Regression Forest menus to identify groups or
  predict values using random forests.
• K Nearest Neighbours menu
  to predict variates or factors from the K closest neighbours using a multivariate similarity matrix.
• Validation of Predictions menu
  to validate predictions, for example from a deterministic model, against observed data.
• Circular Regression menu to model angular or
  other periodic response variates.

Statistics enhancements

• The Log-linear Models,
  Generalized Linear Mixed Models and
  Hierarchical Generalized Linear Models
  menus have had censoring options added to them for Poisson distributions with a log link.
• The Generalized Linear Mixed Models Further Output dialog
  has a new option for Likelihood Tests for Random Terms
• The Hierarchical Generalized Linear Models Further Output
  has a new options for Likelihood Tests for Fixed and
  Random terms
• The Linear Mixed Models Further Output dialog
  has a new option for Permutation Tests for Fixed Terms.
• The Canonical Variates Analysis,
  Discriminant Analysis and
  Stepwise Discriminant Analysis menus
  have had a Trellis plot option added to display the groups
  in a 2d Trellis plot of histograms or pie charts.
• The Smoothing Spline and
  Locally Weighted Regression menus
  have had options added to fit these models with groups.
• The Standard Curves now has the option
  to fit a common non-linear parameter with grouped data.
• A new option has been added to the Response Surface Options
  dialog to print the predicted values.
• The Generate Random Sample menu
  has had 5 distributions added (Exponentially modified Normal, Generalized Extreme Value,
  Inverse Normal, Laplace and Skew Normal).
• The Probability Distribution Plot and
  Empirical Distribution tests menus have had 2 distributions
  added (Exponentially modified Normal and Skew Normal).
• The Classification Trees menu has a new
  Identifications dialog and the
  Regression Trees menu has a new
  Predictions dialog to apply the tree model to new data.
• The ANOVA % Variance and Sums of Squares button
  added to the ANOVA Further Output dialog and options to print
  these added to the ANOVA Options dialog.

Graphics enhancements

• A new 2D Trellis Plot of Groups menu has been added.
• A new Mosaic Plot menu has been added.

Spreadsheet enhancements

• The spreadsheet now supports reading Statistica 11-14, Minitab 13+, MATLAB 2016 and Feather files.
• The separators used in CSV files can now be specified by the user.

General enhancements

• The Restart Server menu now immediately kills the server and restarts it, if it is still running commands. This may leave a red server icon in the toolbar, but this will disappear if the mouse hovers over the icon.
• The ability to select quotes when double clicking words in the test added has been added. This can be turned on or off in the Text Editor tab
  of Tools | Options dialog.

Games

Three games menus have been added to the Data Menu.
Although these are a light-hearted addition for your amusement, they demonstrate
interactive procedures through the use of the QDIALOG directive
and the new DCLOSE and %FLUSH directives,
as well the use of PNG images as plotting symbols in the graphics.

• Play Bingo.
• Play Fruit Machine.
• Play Life.
• Play Noughts and Crosses.