[R-sig-ME] Kinship vs. Pedigreemm

[David Duffy]

On Mon, 9 Apr 2012, Joehanes, Roby (NIH/NHLBI) [F] wrote:

> 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?

Terry Therneau wrote in the lmekin vignette:

"Let me emphasis this: most models that can be fit with the lmekin 
function can also be fit with lme and/or lmer. For any such model the 
lme/lmer functions will be faster and have superior support routines 
(residuals, printing, plotting, etc.) The solution code for lmer is likely 
also more reliable since it has been exercised on a much wider variety of 
data sets.

"However, there are models that lmekin will fit which lme will not. The 
most obvious of these are models with a random genetic effect, e.g. a 
kinship matrix. The second class will be models for which the user has 
written their own variance extension, as described in the variance 
vignette."


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