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Families (version 2.0.2)

Kinship Ties in (Virtual) Multi-Generation Populations

Description

Tools to study lineages, grandparenthood, loss of close relatives, kinship networks and other topics in multi-generation populations.

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install.packages('Families')

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193

Version

2.0.2

License

GPL-2

Maintainer

Frans Willekens

Last Published

April 13th, 2024

Functions in Families (2.0.2)

IDsib

IDs of siblings of ego
IDgch

IDs of grandchildren of ego
Db

Date(s) of birth in decimal format
Families-package

Kinship Ties in Virtual Populations
Alive

Living status of individual at given age or calendar date
IDch

IDs of children of ego
Age

Age of ego or kin at given calendar date
IDmother

ID of mother of ego
IDfather

ID of father of ego
Dd

Date(s) of death in decimal format
IDau

IDs of aunts and uncles of ego
Tests

Checks the input data
Nkin

Number of kin of given type
IDpartner

ID of partner of ego
PlotAges

Plots age distribution(s) of kin
dLH

Individual fertility histories of members of a virtual population. Sample dataset.
Kin_long

Converts a list vector of kin into a dataframe of kin