# ------------------------------------------------ # CITATION.cff file created with {cffr} R package # See also: https://docs.ropensci.org/cffr/ # ------------------------------------------------ cff-version: 1.2.0 message: 'To cite package "BKQualit" in publications use:' type: software license: GPL-3.0-only title: 'BKQualit: Analysis of Qualitative Traits, Segregation and Genetic Linkage' version: 0.1.0 doi: 10.32614/CRAN.package.BKQualit abstract: A colour-first toolkit for the analysis of qualitative (categorical) traits in plant breeding and genetics. It tests observed segregation against the classical Mendelian expectations, fitting every standard mono-, di- and trihybrid ratio automatically and ranking them by goodness of fit, with Yates continuity correction and Monte Carlo exact tests for sparse tables. It partitions chi-square across families into pooled and heterogeneity components, so that a poor overall fit can be attributed either to the hypothesised ratio or to variation between families. Genetic linkage is estimated by maximum likelihood from two-locus second filial generation and backcross data, with logarithm of odds scores and likelihood-ratio confidence intervals for the recombination fraction. The package further computes Shannon-Weaver and Simpson diversity for descriptor states used in distinctness, uniformity and stability testing, and performs multiple correspondence analysis and Gower-distance clustering of mixed categorical and quantitative descriptors. Every analysis returns a tidy result object and a publication-ready 'ggplot2' figure. Methods follow Mather (1951, ), Allard (1956) and Gower (1971) . authors: - family-names: B. K. given-names: Praveen Kumar email: bkpraveenars@gmail.com repository: https://bkpraveenars-del.r-universe.dev repository-code: https://github.com/bkpraveenars-del/BKQualit commit: ab762d0eb1c1925b4eaeb9b825199cd2729b2dc2 url: https://github.com/bkpraveenars-del/BKQualit date-released: '2026-09-05' contact: - family-names: B. K. given-names: Praveen Kumar email: bkpraveenars@gmail.com