NlsyLinks-package: Utilities and kinship information for Behavior Genetics and...

In NlsyLinks: Utilities and kinship information for research with the NLSY

Description

Utilities and kinship information for Behavior Genetics and Developmental research using the NLSY.

Note

This package considers both Gen1 and Gen2 subjects. "Gen1" refers to subjects in the original NLSY79 sample (http://www.bls.gov/nls/nlsy79.htm). "Gen2" subjects are the biological children of the Gen1 females -ie, those in the NLSY79 Children and Young Adults sample (http://www.bls.gov/nls/nlsy79ch.htm).

Author(s)

William Howard Beasley (Howard Live Oak LLC, Norman)

Joseph Lee Rodgers (Vanderbilt University, Nashville)

David Bard (University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, OKC)

Kelly Meredith (Oklahoma City University, OKC)

Michael D. Hunter (University of Oklahoma, Norman)

Maintainer: Will Beasley <[e-mail]>

References

This package's development was largely supported by the NIH Grant 1R01HD65865, “NLSY Kinship Links: Reliable and Valid Sibling Identification" (PI: Joe Rodgers). A more complete list of research articles using NLSY Kinship Links is maintained on our package's website.

Rodgers, Joseph Lee, & Kohler, Hans-Peter (2005). Reformulating and simplifying the DF analysis model. Behavior Genetics, 35 (2), 211-217.

Rodgers, J.L., Bard, D., Johnson, A., D'Onofrio, B., & Miller, W.B. (2008). The Cross-Generational Mother-Daughter-Aunt-Niece Design: Establishing Validity of the MDAN Design with NLSY Fertility Variables. Behavior Genetics, 38, 567-578.

D'Onofrio, B.M., Van Hulle, C.A., Waldman, I.D., Rodgers, J.L., Rathouz, P.J., & Lahey, B.B. (2007). Causal inferences regarding prenatal alcohol exposure and childhood externalizing problems. Archives of General Psychiatry, 64, 1296-1304.

Rodgers, J.L. & Doughty, D. (2000). Genetic and environmental influences on fertility expectations and outcomes using NLSY kinship data. In J.L. Rodgers, D. Rowe, & W.B. Miller (Eds.) Genetic influences on fertility and sexuality. Boston: Kluwer Academic Press.

Cleveland, H.H., Wiebe, R.P., van den Oord, E.J.C.G., & Rowe, D.C. (2000). Behavior problems among children from different family structures: The influence of genetic self-selection. Child Development, 71, 733-751.

Rodgers, J.L., Rowe, D.C., & Buster, M. (1999). Nature, nurture, and first sexual intercourse in the USA: Fitting behavioural genetic models to NLSY kinship data. Journal of Biosocial Sciences, 31.

Rodgers, J.L., Rowe, D.C., & Li, C. (1994). Beyond nature versus nurture: DF analysis of nonshared influences on problem behaviors. Developmental Psychology, 30, 374-384.

Examples

library(NlsyLinks) #Load the package into the current R session.
summary(Links79Pair)  #Summarize the five variables.
hist(Links79Pair$R)  #Display a histogram of the Relatedness values.
table(Links79Pair$R)  #Create a table of the Relatedness values for the whole sample.

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