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Inserted response variable name and CYCLESTR in .evp file.Improved parsing of !CYCLE

Three files added to the resources page: Numerator Relationship matrix, Ruduced Animal Model and notes from my recent invited talk to the Australsian Applied Stats meeting held at Inverloch, Victoria. Program changes:Echidna can get start values from an .msv file (written by ASReml)Fixed !CYCLE 1:5 […]

Fixed bug in R script generated with !RML qualifier. Use harveyESS=read.csv(“harvey.ess”,header=T,strip.white=T) to read in the .ess file.

HANDLE SOME LARGE PREDICTS BETTERVarious bug fixes

Fixed bug fitting multivariate model when no records have all traits present.Added !AISING qualifier to better manage singularities n the AI matrix. Thank-you to those users who find issues with Echidna and let me know. Arthur

Fixed bug limiting pedigree to 400000 individualsAdd !SGIV qualifier to PEDIGREE file line

Fixed serious bug calculating the Residual Score in multivariate models when missing value pattern differs among traits.Fixed issue of some jobs failing with Factor !I factor type Fixed issue parsing at(Tr,2).( A -B)Added new sparse binary .sgiv input option

Fixed issue with Factor !A !L names.txtFixed issues with .xml files

Refined plot of RvE for binary dataAdded !HINV qualifier to merge a Genomic relationship matrix with a Numerator relationship matrix to form Hinverse. Various bug fixes

More components allowed in VPREDICT Fixed bug (crash( reporting long integer class names in PREDICTAdded ANTE variance structure . ante1(access) as R and GSome changes to STEPSZ and SLOW tuning have slightly modified some convergence sequences. Added ar1h(access) as R and GFixed ante1(access $VarG) where […]