Advanced Categorical Data Analysis for Alcohol Research

酒精研究的高级分类数据分析

• 批准号: 7638563
• 负责人: Douglas L Steinley
• 金额: $ 10.13万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-06-15 至 2013-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7638563
• 关键词: Address; Alcohol abuse; Alcoholism; Alcohols; Area; Award; Classification; Cluster Analysis; Collaborations; Consensus; Cross-Sectional Studies; Data; Data Analyses; Data Set; Development; Development Plans; Disease; Drug Use Disorder; Educational workshop; Environment; Factor Analysis; Faculty; Future; Goals; Growth; Health; Health behavior; Human Development; Individual; Knowledge; Life Cycle Stages; Literature; Longevity; Mentors; Mentorship; Methodology; Methods; Mind; Missouri; Modeling; National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism; Nicotine Dependence; Pattern; Performance; Population; Procedures; Process; Psychologist; Psychometrics; Psychopathology; Public Health; Research; Research Design; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Sampling; Science; Statistical Methods; Structure; Study Section; Subgroup; Techniques; Universities; Validation; addiction; age related; alcohol research; alcohol use disorder; base; career; career development; cohort; college; developmental disease; disorder subtype; experience; member; person centered; professor; programs; prospective; psychologic; public health relevance; research and development; skills

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): 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 grantsmanship 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 alcohol research. The research plan includes components for investigating cross-sectional and longitudinal relationships among alcohol use disorders in the context of co-occurring 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. Public Health Relevance: 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.

描述（由申请人提供）：这是指导定量研究开发奖（K25）的新申请。申请人道格拉斯·斯坦利（Douglas Steinley）是密苏里州哥伦比亚大学心理科学系的定量心理学家，他提出了一段职业发展和研究时期，旨在将他的技能集中在方法论发展上，将其用于与酒精相关研究的紧迫问题。在密苏里大学哥伦比亚大学的策展人心理学教授肯尼斯·J·谢尔（Kenneth J. Sher）的指导下，申请人将熟悉有关酒精滥用和酒精中毒的理论和实质性问题。此外，导师将指导候选人关于赠款技巧，最终目标是申请人向独立研究者的过渡。该过程包括一项详细的职业发展计划，其中包括教学成分（例如，与酒精研究相关的课程和讲习班）以及被证明是成功的酒精研究环境（例如，立即与导师实验室的互动，与其他部门的其他教职员工进行的互动，都与附近的中西部酒精研究中心的合作等）。关于他的研究计划，申请人计划将其基于广泛的方法论发展应用于分类/聚类，以在酒精研究中发现，验证和验证亚型的特定问题。该研究计划包括用于调查同时发生的心理病理学和人类发展的饮酒障碍中横断面和纵向关系的组成部分。此外，将专门开发方法来解决这些领域的问题。申请人使用现有的数据集（NIAAA的NESARC数据）和当前正在拟议的导师正在构建的数据集，申请人提议开始一项研究计划，以开发新的方法论并协调现有的，但酒精研究人员可能在酒精研究的背景下进行了方法。 公共卫生相关性：该研究与公共卫生有关，因为申请人将开发适合酒精研究的新方法学技术。此外，将制定一组标准来验证酒精研究中现有的结果和未来发现，从而使应用研究人员能够识别何时应用特定的分析技术。