MODELS AND METHODS PROJECT

拟议的研究计划的主要目标是开发 药物滥用、艾滋病和政策的新心理测量方法 研究。待开发的方法包括纠正丢失的数据 方法论、健壮方法论、免分发方法 以及其他各种适用的潜变量建模方法 要分析真实的药物滥用数据，如分布不均 非正态变量。然后将这些方法应用于导入 药物滥用数据集。为了在不同的地方传播结果 技术细节水平、非技术论文水平和实用水平 在方法上也得到了改进。教程到 还给出了药物滥用研究中的改进方法，以及 药物滥用和健康研究人员和政府机构 就方法论研究结果及其影响提供咨询。

The primary aim of the proposed research program is to develop new psychometric methods for drug abuse, AIDS, and policy research. Methods to be developed include correct missing data methodologies, robust methodologies, distribution-free methods and a variety of other latent variable modeling methods applicable to the analysis of real drug abuse data, such as badly distributed nonnormal variables. These methods are then applied to import drug abuse datasets. In order to disseminate the results at various levels of technical detail, nontechnical papers and practical improvements in methodology are also developed. Tutorials to improve methodology in drug abuse research are also given, and drug abuse and health researchers and government agencies are advised on the methodology research results and its implications.