[R-sig-ME] Kinship vs. Pedigreemm

[Joehanes, Roby (NIH/NHLBI) [F]]

Hi:

Yes, you are right. It appears that package kinship is now broken into several packages: coxme, kinship2, bdsmatrix, among others. Are you aware of the difference between them and pedigreemm?

Thank you,
Roby


On Apr 9, 2012, at 1:32 PM, Federico Calboli wrote:

> On 9 Apr 2012, at 18:15, Joehanes, Roby (NIH/NHLBI) [F] wrote:
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>> Dear all:
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>> I wonder if any of you are familiar with both packages Kinship and PedigreeMM? What are the major differences other than Kinship using NLME and PedigreeMM using LME4? From the source code, though, the main Kinship routine, lmekin, does not appear to use nlme; it appears to minimize the likelihood function directly using optim (L-BFGS-B option).
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>> Also, it appears that package Kinship has been obsoleted from the CRAN. Why is that? Is it because Kinship package has been largely obsoleted by PedigreeMM?
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> I thought that Kinship is now replaced by Kinship2 (http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/kinship2/index.html).
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> BW
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