Advanced Categorical Data Analysis for Alcohol Research

这是一个指导定量研究发展奖（K25）的新申请。申请人， 大学心理科学系的定量心理学家道格拉斯·斯坦利说， 密苏里-哥伦比亚大学的教授提出了一段职业发展和研究的时间，旨在将他的技能集中在 在酒精相关研究的紧迫问题上的方法发展。的辅导下 Kenneth J. Sher是密苏里-哥伦比亚大学心理科学系的策展人教授， 申请人将熟悉有关酒精滥用的理论和实质性问题， 酒精中毒此外，导师将指导候选人在授予方面与最终 目标是将申请人转变为独立调查员。该过程包括详细的 职业发展计划包括教学部分（例如，酒精研究相关课程， 研讨会）和再现到一个成功的酒精研究环境（例如，立即 融入导师的实验室，与该部门的其他教师进行酒精的互动 研究，促进与附近的中西部酒精中毒研究中心等的合作）。相对 在他的研究计划中，申请人计划将他广泛的方法论发展应用于 对涉及发现、验证和确认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截面和 在同时发生的精神病理学背景下酒精使用障碍之间的纵向关系， 人类发展此外，将专门制定方法，以解决这些问题。 地区利用现有的数据集（NIAAA的NESARC数据）和目前正在建设的数据集， 建议导师，申请人建议开始一项研究计划，开发新的方法， 协调现有的，但可能是未知的酒精研究人员，方法在酒精的背景下， research.这项研究与公共卫生有关，因为申请人将开发新的方法 适合酒精研究的技术。此外，还将制定一套标准， 验证酒精研究中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.