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    • Blog, Thought Leadership

    The statistical podcast showcase: A wealth of insights for statisticians

    I’m a fan of podcasts, especially those that make me think, intrigue me, teach me something new, and/or...
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    • Blog, Statistics and Computing

    Exploring repeated measures data: Random coefficient regression models in action

    A random coefficient regression is a special type of linear mixed model....
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    • Blog, Statistics and Computing

    Exploring spatial modelling: Enhancing statistical analysis for scientists and statisticians

    The need to model spatial correlations between observations in two-dimensions occurs when the experimental units are laid out...
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    • Blog, Medical / Pharmaceutical

    The changing landscape of the pharmaceutical statistician

    Over the past forty years the number of statisticians in the pharmaceutical industry has grown enormously....
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    • Blog, Breeding / Quantitative Genetics

    Understanding BLUEs, BLUPs, and breeding values in linear mixed models

    The fitting of a linear mixed model (LMM) can be divided into two steps. The first one is...
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    • Blog, Thought Leadership

    Will COP26 resolve the global food supply conundrum?

    With COP26 just a few days away, I can’t help but think we are at one of the...
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    • ASReml, Blog, Breeding / Quantitative Genetics

    How can I make my GBLUP analysis in ASReml-R run faster?

    I have been a user of ASReml-R for more than 10 years. I started in the pre-genomics era...
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    • Blog, Breeding / Quantitative Genetics

    What is phenomics?

    Overselling promises around genomics led to an incorrect belief that phenotypic data is not as important as genomic...
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    • Blog, Statistics and Computing

    The nasty politics of the average!

    Often, we see reported the mean, or average, of a group of data....
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    • Blog, Design of Experiments, Genstat

    Optimizing statistical power: Designing effective experiments with Genstat

    Genstat and ASReml are often used to analyse the results of experiments....
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    • Blog

    Deciding which variables matter: exploring multiple linear regression in Genstat

    Discover how to navigate the challenge of selecting variables for your regression model using manual fitting, all subsets...
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