The NlsyLinks
R
package contains utilities and kinship information for behavior genetics
and developmental research using the NLSY. The development (and
directions for installing it) are located in a GitHub
repository.
For beginners, the most helpful documents are:
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Website DOI
Because the links are distributed in a variety of file formats (including as non-proprietary CSVs), the are accessible by all statistical software. The NLSY and BG concepts and basic programming are fairly consistent across languages, so the R examples should be roughly translatable into different statistical platforms.
Here’s a SAS example that covers the basics. If you have a need for a different example, or a different language, feel free to request it in the ‘Other Software’ section in our forums. We would like to know what examples of platforms are the most useful to the potential users of the links.
The NlsyLinksDetermination
repository contains the C#
code that manipulates the NLSY data to produce the relatedness values.
If you’re only interested in the R package (and not how the relatedness
coefficients were determined), then please see the NlsyLinks
package described above.
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Our support forums are intended to cover all aspects of this project, not just software. The top-level forums are: