NEW PSYCHOMETRIC METHODS FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE RESEARCH

描述：(申请人摘要) 这是K05高级科学家研究事业奖(RCA)的申请 #5 KO5 DAOO17的竞争性延续。《公约》的具体目标 建议的五年研究计划如下：1.开发新的 药物滥用、艾滋病和政策研究的心理测量学方法2.应用 这些新开发的方法可用于重要的药物滥用数据集3.生成 非技术性论文和方法上的实际改进，4.创建 改进药物滥用研究方法的教程，以及5.对药物的建议 虐待和健康研究人员和政府机构 方法论 研究项目是针对新的多元变量的开发 心理测量学和统计学技术，为 改善心理社会、社会、行为、流行病学、 以及与健康有关的药物使用和滥用以及与艾滋病有关的研究 行为。实验与非实验的稳健分析方法 可能包含选择性、异常值、随意性的药物滥用数据 分布、测量误差、有序标度、非标准抽样 将制定计划等。特别关注的是结构 可能涉及调解和调节中的潜在变量的方程模型 关系。最佳缺失数据、健壮、无分布和策略 研究方法是一个特别关注的问题。虽然不会在以下情况下收集数据 这笔赠款，新开发的技术将被广泛评估 它们对药物滥用/艾滋病研究的实际意义，通过解决 根据#年获得的高质量数据研究药物滥用方面的重要实质性问题 与NIDA/UCLA计划项目赠款PO1 DA01070的关联通过 与国家活跃的药物滥用研究人员合作 他们自己的项目以及与NIDA和其他机构的合作 与健康相关的机构。在此授权下开发的方法还 将通过上述目标(3)和(4)广泛传播。

DESCRIPTION: (Applicant's Abstract) This is a request for a K05 Senior Scientist Research Career Award (RCA) as a competing continuation of #5 KO5 DAOOO17. The specific aims of the proposed five-year research program are the following: 1. Develop new psychometric methods for drug abuse, AIDS, and policy research 2. Apply these newly developed methods to important drug abuse data sets 3. Generate nontechnical papers and practical improvements in methodology, 4. Create tutorials to improve methodology in drug abuse research, and 5. Advise drug abuse and health researchers and government agencies on methodology The research program is directed towards the development of new multivariate psychometric and statistical techniques that hold special promise for improving the quality of psychosocial, social, behavioral, epidemiological, and health-related research on drug use and abuse and AIDS related behaviors. Methods for robustly analyzing experimental and nonexperimental drug abuse data that may contain selectivity, outlier cases, arbitrary distributions, errors in-measurement, ordinal scales, nonstandard sampling plans, etc. will be developed. Special attention is given to structural equation models that may involve latent variables in mediation and moderator relations. Optimal missing data, robust, distribution-free, and policy research methods are a special focus. While no data will be gathered under this grant, the newly developed techniques will be extensively evaluated for their practical relevance to drug abuse/AIDS research by addressing important substantive issues in drug abuse on high-quality data obtained in association with NIDA/UCLA program project grant PO1 DA01070 via collaboration with nationally active substance abuse researchers working on their own projects, as well as by cooperation with NIDA and other health-related agencies. Methods that are developed under this grant also will be widely disseminated via goals (3) and (4) above.