Advanced Categorical Data Analysis for Alcohol Research

这是一项新的导师量化研究发展奖(K25)的申请。申请人， 道格拉斯·斯坦利，该大学心理科学系的定量心理学家 提出了一段时间的职业发展和研究，旨在将他的技能集中在 酒精相关研究中迫切问题的方法学进展。在…的指导下 肯尼斯·J·谢尔，密苏里大学哥伦比亚分校心理科学馆长教授， 应聘者将熟悉有关酒精滥用的理论和实质性问题，并 酗酒。此外，导师将指导应聘者以终极的 目标是将申请者转变为独立调查员。该过程包括详细的 包括教学内容的职业发展计划(例如，与酒精研究有关的课程和 研讨会)和重现成功的酒精研究环境(例如，立即 融入导师的实验室，与教研室的其他教职员工进行互动 研究，促进与附近的中西部酒精中毒研究中心的合作等)。怀着敬意 在他的研究计划中，申请人计划将他的基础广泛的方法论发展应用于 对与发现、验证和验证有关的领域特定问题进行分类/聚类 酒精研究中的亚型。研究计划包括调查横断面和 在精神病理学和酒精使用障碍共发生的背景下酒精使用障碍之间的纵向关系 人的发展。此外，还将专门制定解决这些问题的方法。 区域。使用现有数据集(NIAAA的NESARC数据)和目前正在建设的数据集 建议的导师，申请人建议开始一项研究计划，开发新的方法和 协调现有的，但酒精研究人员可能未知的酒精背景下的方法学 研究。这项研究与公共卫生有关，因为申请者将开发新的方法 适合酒精研究的技术。此外，还将制定一套标准，以 验证酒精研究的现有结果和未来发现，为应用研究人员提供以下能力 辨别何时应用特定的分析技术。

This is a new application for a Mentored Quantitative Research Development Award (K25). The applicant, Douglas Steinley, a quantitative psychologist in the Department of Psychological Sciences at the University of Missouri-Columbia, proposes a period of career development and research designed to focus his skills in methodological development on pressing problems in alcohol related research. Under the mentorship of Kenneth J. Sher, Curator's Professor of Psychological Sciences at the University of Missouri-Columbia, the applicant will become familiar with theoretical and substantive issues concerning alcohol abuse and alcoholism. Additionally, the mentor will guide the candidate with respect to grantmanship with the ultimate goal being the transition of the applicant to an independent investigator. The process includes a detailed career development plan that includes a didactic component (e.g., alcohol research related coursework and workshops) and an emersion into a provenly successful alcohol research environment (e.g., immediate integration into the mentor's lab,interaction with other faculty members in the department conducting alcohol research, promoted collaboration with the nearby Midwest Alcoholism Research Center, etc.). With respect to his research plan, the applicant plans to apply his broad based methodological developments in classification/clustering to domain specific questions concerning discovering, verifying, and validating subtypes in alocohol research. The research plan includes components for investigating cross-sectional and longitudinal relationships among alchol use disorders in the context of co-occuring psychopathology and human development. Furthermore, methodology will be developed specifically to address problems in these areas. Using existing data sets (NIAAA's NESARC data) and data sets currently under construction by the proposed mentor, the applicant proposes to begin a research program that develops new methodology and coordinates existing, but likely unknown to alcohol researchers, methodology in the context of alcohol research. The research is relevant to public health in that the applicant will develop new methodological techniques that are appropriate for alcohol research. Furthermore, a set of standards will be developed to validate existing results and future findings in alcohol research, providing applied researchers the ability to discern when to apply specific analytic techniques.