Abstract

The Statistics Core has five specific aims essential to achieving the Center's mission. This Core serves the Center's multifaceted needs by 1) designing and administering CEDAR's Management and Information System regulating the a) Subject Tracking Information System;b) Research Protocol Information System (collection, entry, verification, storage, scoring, backup, security and confidentiality, retrieval, processing and;disseminating of the data), and c) the Local Area Network (LAN) and CEDAR's Web Site;. 2) conducting psychometric analyses of all instruments used in CEDAR to assure their quality;3) investigating the robustness of item response theory (IRT) methods pertinent to longitudinal family research (e.g., missing data, dependency between items, heterogeneity of the sample);4) leading the CEDAR faculty engaged in analyses directed at confirming/disconfirming CEDAR's biopsychosocial theory of SUD etiology;and, 5) providing consultative statistical support for CEDAR faculty, fellows, and students, in addition, all statistical analyses contained, in data-based manuscripts are reviewed by this Core prior to submission for publication.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Type
Specialized Center (P50)
Project #
5P50DA005605-22
Application #
8445285
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZDA1-EXL-T)
Project Start
Project End
Budget Start
2013-03-01
Budget End
2014-02-28
Support Year
22
Fiscal Year
2013
Total Cost
$267,158
Indirect Cost
$72,696

  Institution

Name
University of Pittsburgh
Department
Type
DUNS #
004514360
City
Pittsburgh
State
PA
Country
United States
Zip Code
15213

  Publications

Marceau, Kristine; Kirisci, Levent; Tarter, Ralph E (2018) Correspondence of Pubertal Neuroendocrine and Tanner Stage Changes in Boys and Associations With Substance Use. Child Dev :
Vanyukov, Michael M; Nimgaonkar, Vishwajit L; Kirisci, Levent et al. (2018) Association of cognitive function and liability to addiction with childhood herpesvirus infections: A prospective cohort study. Dev Psychopathol 30:143-152
Price, Julia; Drabick, Deborah A G; Ridenour, Ty A (2018) Association With Deviant Peers Across Adolescence: Subtypes, Developmental Patterns, and Long-Term Outcomes. J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol :1-12
Parker, Andrew M; de Bruin, Wändi Bruine; Fischhoff, Baruch et al. (2018) Robustness of Decision-Making Competence: Evidence from two measures and an 11-year longitudinal study. J Behav Decis Mak 31:380-391
Halliburton, Amanda E; Ridenour, Ty A; White, Bradley A et al. (2017) Clinically differentiating life-course-persistent and adolescence-limited conduct problems: Is age-of-onset really enough? J Appl Dev Psychol 52:34-45
Bastian, Jaime R; Chen, Huijun; Zhang, Hongfei et al. (2017) Dose-adjusted plasma concentrations of sublingual buprenorphine are lower during than after pregnancy. Am J Obstet Gynecol 216:64.e1-64.e7
Eckert, Scott; Feingold, Eleanor; Cooper, Margaret et al. (2017) Variants on chromosome 4q21 near PKD2 and SIBLINGs are associated with dental caries. J Hum Genet 62:491-496
Rabinowitz, Jill A; Osigwe, Ijeoma; Byrne, Ashley et al. (2017) Father- and Youth-Reported Family Affective Expression Differentially Predicts Youth Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms. J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol :1-14
Rabinowitz, Jill A; Osigwe, Ijeoma; Drabick, Deborah A G et al. (2016) Negative emotional reactivity moderates the relations between family cohesion and internalizing and externalizing symptoms in adolescence. J Adolesc 53:116-126
Altszuler, Amy R; Page, Timothy F; Gnagy, Elizabeth M et al. (2016) Financial Dependence of Young Adults with Childhood ADHD. J Abnorm Child Psychol 44:1217-29

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