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GenStat Discovery Edition Documentation |
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GenStat Discovery Edition is a free version of GenStat developed by VSN International for use by not-for-profit research organisations, charities and educational institutes based in the developing world. Click here to go to the website of VSN Intl. Click here for general information about GenStat Discovery Edition. The GenStat software itself is supplied with a full range of documentation in electronic format, accessible from the Help system and in pdf format. This includes introductory and technical documentation. There is a simple tutorial and a more comprehensive tutorial aimed at users from agricultural research. An introductory guide in French is included, but most of the documentation, and the program interface itself are in English. On this page we give an overview of documentation and additional resources on the GenStat Discovery Edition. The difference between GenStat Discovery Edition 3, and GenStat 7 for Windows lies in the distribution and registration. User guides and manuals written for one version can be used for the other version. Not everything from manuals written for later versions can be used for the GenStat Discovery Edition. You need Adobe Acrobat reader to read the pdf documents. If you don't have it, click here. Learning a software means you have to go through a learning curve. Below we rank the resources from easy to advanced. |
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Resources for novice users or for users who are not very confident about their statistics skills. |
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| Following manuals are written for GenStat Discovery Edition 2 (GenStat for Windows 5). They will be updated and replaced later. | |||||
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Introductory manuals |
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Wim Buysse, Roger Stern and Ric Coe, 2004. GenStat Discovery Edition for everyday use . ICRAF Nairobi, Kenya. 114 pp. An introductory manual that can be used for self-study or as documentation for a training workshop. Chapter 2 teaches the GenStat basics. The other chapters cover basic statistics, regression and ANOVA. There are review questions and slightly difficult challenges. Most examples and exercises come from an agricultural and biological background. Chapter 10 helps you to find other free documentation and user guides.
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Wim Buysse, Roger Stern et Ric Coe, 2004. GenStat Édition Discovery pour Usage Quotidien . Traduit par Amini Mutaganda. ICRAF Nairobi, Kenya. 122 pp.
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SSC, 2003. A review of basic statistics using GenStat – Version 6. Statistical Services Centre of the University of Reading, UK. 62 pp |
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GenStat Discovery Edition 3 contains many features that were not available in Edition 2. GenStat for Windows 8 contains some features that are not available in GenStat Discovery Edition 3. So, until the manuals for GenStat Discovery Edition 3 are ready, also read the introductory manual for version 8.
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GenStat for Windows 8th Edition |
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Wim Buysse, Roger Stern, Ric Coe, Brigid McDermott, Samuel Muchiri, Maurice Okello, Parin Kurji, Elias Obudho and Peter Mong'are, 2005. GenStat 8th Edition for everyday use. ICRAF Nairobi, Kenya. 114 pp. |
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Moving to a more advanced level |
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Other manuals and advanced topics |
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Roger Payne, Darren Murray, Simon Harding, David Baird, Duncan Soutar & Peter Lane. 2003. GenStat for Windows (7th Edition) Introduction. VSN International, Oxford, UK. 336 pp. |
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Look in chapter 10 of "GenStat Discovery Edition for everyday use" on how to find over 3,000 pages of other free documentation and user guides and how to use the interactive tutorial, part of the GenStat help.
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Roger Stern and James Gallagher. 2004 Analysing climatic data using GenStat for Windows. Statistical Services Centre of the University of Reading and the UK Met Office. 202 pp. Written for use with GenStat for Windows 7.
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Wim Buysse. 2003. The Dupe of Duplication. ICRAF Research Support Unit Technical Note No 2. ICRAF World Agroforestry Centre. Nairobi, Kenya. 50 pp. A technical note that describes how and when to import or to link between several software applications. Covers GenStat for Windows 5th Edition.
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PowerPoint presentation by Wim Buysse used in a RUFORUM training
workshop in Zambia that shows how to move from ANOVA and regression to
Generalised Linear Models using GenStat Discovery Edition 2. The
presentation focuses on understanding the underlying distributions. The
data used in the exercises (MS Excel spreadsheets) can be found in the
zip-file.
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Ceci est une présentation PowerPoint par Wim Buysse qui était utilisé dans une formation pour INERA Mulungu (RDC) et ISABU Bujumbura (Burundi). La présentation montre comment d'avancer d'une approche ANOVA et régression vers une approche de modélisation en utilisant des modèles linéaires généralisés (GLM - Generalised Linear Models) en GenStat Édition Discovery 2. La présentation accentue la compréhension des distributions sous-jacentes des données. La première partie de la présentation est une introduction. Le fichier zip contient des fichiers MS Excel qui étaient utilisés dans des exercices. |
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Biometris procedures |
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A procedure is a kind of subroutine written in the GenStat command language. New statistical methods are usually first written as a procedure and later fully incorporated in a next version of GenStat. Below you can download a set of procedures from Biometris. Biometris is the integration of the business unit Biometry of Plant Research International (http://www.pri.wur.nl/uk/) and the departments of Applied Mathematics and Applied Statistics of Wageningen University. Biometris is a group of about 35 statisticians and mathematicians, organised in four clusters.
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Disclaimer for the Biometris Procedure Library |
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Permission to use, copy and distribute the Biometris Procedure Library and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the entire package is kept together and that this permission and disclaimer notice appears in all copies. Biometris, Plant Research International and Wageningen UR make no warranty of any kind, expressed or implied, including without limitation any warranties of merchantability and/or fitness for a particular purpose. Biometris, Plant Research International and Wageningen UR do not assume any liability for the use of this software. In no event will Biometris, Plant Research International or Wageningen UR be liable to you for any additional damages, including any lost profits, lost savings, or other incidental or consequential damages arising from the use of, or inability to use, this software and its accompanying documentation, even if Biometris, Plant Research International or Wageningen UR has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
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| Download the Biometris Procedure Library for GenStat 7th Edition or GenStat Discovery Edition 3 | |||||
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If you read this from a CD-rom, click here to install the Biometris procedures. If you read this on-line, right-click on the link and save the file "Biometris7ed.exe" on your hard disk before installing it. Click on Biometris7ed.pdf to download the manual (Adobe pdf file - 737 KB). Alternatively, you can download the Biometris Procedure Library from its original location: http://www.biometris.wur.nl/UK/Software/Genstat+procedures/
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The GenStat Mailing List |
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Below is a link to the homepage of the GenStat Mailing List. There you can read how to join the list and the rules to follow when participating in the list. http://www.bioss.sari.ac.uk/genstat/ Click here to go to the CCLRC listserver containing the archives of the GenStat mailing list from when it was set up (1995 - current).
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