- GenStat
GenStat is a general
statistical package . Early versions were developed for large mainframe computers. Up until version 5, there was aUnix binary available, and this continues to be used by many universities and research institutions. The current version, version 10, is available for the Windows environment.GenStat was originally developed at the then Rothamsted Experimental Station (now Rothamsted Research).
"GenStat Discovery Edition" is a free version of the statistical software GenStat. GenStat Discovery Edition 3 is available to non-commercial users throughout Africa and a range of developing countries outside Africa. Examples of users who qualify are students and lecturers of universities and staff of government research organisations or NGOs.When you register for a license you will be asked for information about the status of the organisation which will be using the software to determine whether it qualifies for the free version.
It is developed by VSN International which is owned by The
Numerical Algorithms Group and Rothamsted Research.External links
* [http://www.vsni.co.uk/products/genstat/ GenStat homepage by VSN Intl.]
* [http://www.nag.co.uk/stats/tt_soft.asp GenStat page of NAG, previous distributors of GenStat]
* [http://stats.ma.ic.ac.uk/~jan01/ John Nelder FRS]
* [http://www.royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqSearch=RefNo='EC/1981/28'&dsqDb=Catalog Royal Society citation for Nelder]
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