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For weighted analyses, whether (DH)GL(M)M or not, the base assumption isthat the weights are the inverse of the true variance, and therefore do notrequire a scaling (heterogenity/dispersion) factor . In line with ASReml 4.3,a scaling factor can be requested now via the RESIDUAL statement.(It was […]

Bug parsing at(Trait 1).(Year lin(Cal) ) fixedBug processing Selection !A 454 !L filteredped.csv !LSKIP 1 Record !A 1891 !L weatherped.csv !LSKIP 1 resolved

Fix bug recognising content of .grr file (marker data)

Fix bug parsing at(Trait,1).(Year, sin(Month,12), cos(Month,12)) !R +Fix bugs fitting DHGLM models: milk dev(milk) ~ Trait.DIM !r diag(Trait).spl(DIM)Fix bug fitting diag(T).id(5)Fix bugs in GAMMA dispersion modellingImprove DHGLM model fittingAdd !NOGRAPHICS (-n) qualifier (option) to facilitate Batch processing under Unix

Fixed some bugs parsing complex models

Fixed bug affecting large dense models; miss allocation of workspace used when forming sparse C inverse resulted in miscalculation of Scores and hence lack of proper convergence.

The initial build of Echidna (1.94) for Apple Silicon Mac computers ran 5-10 times slower than on machines with INTEL chips (compiled using the Intel compiler using the Intel MKL library). I have written my own version of the BLAS/LAPACK DGEMM subroutine based on the […]

I wish all who read this grace and peace through Jesus Christ in 2025. Apple Silcon build without graphics included in this release The Mac download package (1.94 and later) contains two Echidna executable programs./Applications/Echidna.app/Contents/MacOS/echidna   is for CPUTYPE  x86_64 (Intel) hardware/Applications/Echidna.app/Contents/MacOS/echidna_AS   is for CPUTYPE  arm64 […]

Some bug fixes related to VCC directive, TrimGRM and reading a marker (.grr) file to form a GRM matrix. Thanks to those you try options and send feedback. I have acquired an Apple Silcon M4 Mac PC to develop a build of Echidna for that […]

Fix bug in setting grid size for spatial layout of field when first ‘row’ is short.