Author: Terry Therneau, Elizabeth Atkinson, Jason Sinnwell, Martha
Matsumoto, Daniel Schaid, Shannon McDonnell
Description: Routines to handle family data with a pedigree object. The
initial purpose was to create correlation structures that
describe family relationships such as kinship and
identity-by-descent, which can be used to model family data in
mixed effects models, such as in the coxme function.  Also
includes a tool for pedigree drawing which is focused on
producing compact layouts without intervention.  Recent
additions include utilities to trim the pedigree object with

Author: Terry Therneau, Elizabeth Atkinson, Jason Sinnwell, Martha Matsumoto, Daniel Schaid, Shannon McDonnell
Depends: R (>= 2.13.0), Matrix, quadprog
initial purpose was to create correlation structures that describe
family relationships such as kinship and identity-by-descent, which
can be used to model family data in mixed effects models, such as in the
coxme function.  Also includes a tool for pedigree drawing which is
focused on producing compact layouts without intervention.  Recent additions
include utilities to trim the pedigree object with various criteria.

various criteria, and kinship for the X chromosome

Author: Terry Therneau, Elizabeth Atkinson, Jason Sinnwell, Daniel Schaid, Shannon McDonnell
Depends: R (>= 2.14.0), Matrix, quadprog
include utilities to trim the pedigree object with various criteria, and

Authors@R: c(person(c("Terry", "M"), "Therneau", role=c("aut")),
Description: Routines to handle family data with a pedigree object. The initial purpose was to create correlation structures that describe

Description: Routines to handle family data with a pedigree object (2014, <doi: 10.1159/000363105>). The initial purpose was to create correlation structures that describe family relationships such as kinship and identity-by-descent, which can be used to model family data in mixed effects models, such as in the coxme function. Also includes a tool for pedigree drawing which is focused on producing compact layouts without intervention. Recent additions include utilities to trim the pedigree object with various criteria, and kinship for the X chromosome.