[R-sig-ME] question about nested random effect

[David Duffy]

You might look at the pedigreemm package, and the examples they analyse there. Because you only have nuclear families, the default genetic model pedigreemm 
uses is equivalent to what you want for the familial correlations.

Cheers, David Duffy.

> I do a research about the relationship between kid age and kids' height and other variables.
> In my data, one mother has many kid, and a kid only have one mom.
> I have consider the nested kid and mom. How could I consider the autocorrelation of each kid.
> It is a 3 levels model, It is too hard for me.