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    • Spring 2021
      • PSY 202b – Advanced Psychological Statistics II (Spring 2021)
    • Fall 2020
      • PSY 209 – Longitudinal Data Analysis and Bayesian Extensions (Fall 2020)
    • Spring 2019
      • Psychology 10 – Analysis of Psychological Data
      • Psychology 202b – Advanced Psychological Statistics II
    • Fall 2018
      • Psychology 207 – Structural Equation Modeling
    • Summer 2018
      • Psychology 10-Analysis of Psychological Data
    • Spring 2018
      • Psychology 10–Analysis of Psychological Data
      • Psychology 202b–Advanced Psychological Statistics II
    • Fall 2017
      • Psychology 209 – Longitudinal Data Analysis and Bayesian Extensions
    • Summer 2017
      • Psychology 10 – Analysis of Psychological Data
    • Spring 2017
      • Psychology 10 – Analysis of Psychological Data
      • Psychology 202b — Advanced Psychological Statistics II
    • Fall 2015
      • Psychology 207 – Structural Equation Modeling
    • Spring 2015
      • Psychology 202b – Advanced Psychological Data II
    • Fall 2014
      • Psychology 10 – Analysis of Psychological Data
      • Psychology 209 – Longitudinal Data Analysis and Bayesian Extensions
    • Spring 2014
      • Psychology 202b – Advanced Psychological Data II
    • Fall 2013
      • Psychology 10 – Analysis of Psychological Data
      • Psychology 207 – Structural Equation Modeling
    • Spring 2013
      • Psychology 10 – Analysis of Psychological Data
      • Psychology 202b – Advanced Psychological Statistics II
      • Psychology 289 – Psychology Colloquium Series
    • Fall 2012
      • Psychology 209 – Longitudinal Data Analysis and Bayesian Extensions
      • Psychology 289 – Psychology Colloquium Series
    • Spring 2012
      • Psychology 202b – Advanced Psychological Statistics II
    • Fall 2011
      • Psychology 202a – Advanced Psychological Statistics I

Sarah Depaoli, Ph.D.

Dr. Sarah Depaoli is Professor and Area Head of Quantitative Methods, Measurement, and Statistics (QMMS) at the University of California, Merced. Her research focuses on issues surrounding Bayesian estimation of latent variable models. She is the author of the book Bayesian Structural Equation Modeling, which is part of the Methodology in the Social Sciences Series with Guilford Press.

Ph.D. in 2010, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Quantitative Methods, with a minor in Mathematical Statistics
M.A. in 2007, CA State University, Sacramento
Quantitative Psychology
B.A. in 2003, CA State University, Sacramento
Psychology

Associate Editor:
Psychological Methods
, 2019-present
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society--Series A, 2022-present
Multivariate Behavioral Research, 2017-present [special issue guest editor]

Guest Editor:
2020-2021 Special Issue of Frontiers in Psychology, Quantitative Psychology and Measurement called "Moving Beyond Non-Informative Prior Distributions: Achieving the Full Potential of Bayesian Methods for Psychological Research,"

2017-2018 Special Issue on Quantitative Methods in Psychology for Translational Issues in Psychological Science

Select Awards and Honors:
Recipient of the 2020 Early Career Alumni Award, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Elected member of the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology (SMEP), 2016

Recipient of the 2015 Rising Star (Early Career) Award, Association for Psychological Sciences (Quantitative Psychology division)

Recipient of the 2011 Distinguished Dissertation Award, American Psychological Association, Division 5 (Methods)

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Recent News

Dr. Sonja Winter (former Depaoli lab member) just published her 4th paper from her dissertation in the SEM Journal. Congrats, Sonja! Dec 2022

Ihnwhi Heo publishes on piecewise growth models in the SEM Journal. Oct 2022

Congratulations Dr. Marieke Visser on obtaining her Ph.D.! Oct 2022

Sarah Depaoli promoted to Full Professor in July 2022.

Ihnwhi Heo joins the Depaoli lab in August 2021!

Sarah Depaoli's book on Bayesian SEM is out!

Sarah Depaoli accepts Early Career Alumni Award from University of Wisconsin, Madison, March 2021

Sonja Winter accepts postdoc position at U. of Missouri starting summer 2021. Congrats, Sonja!

Luca Marvin has paper on Bayesian parameterization accepted (Jan. 2021) into Structural Equation Modeling with Sarah Depaoli and Haiyan Liu.

Marieke Visser and Sonja Winter have paper on prior sensitivity analysis accepted into a special issue on priors in Frontiers in Psychology.

Current Lab Members

Dr. Sarah Depaoli, Director

Current Graduate Students:

Luca Marvin, 4th year

Ihnwhi Heo, 2nd year

  • Former PhD Graduates:
  • Marieke Visser, PhD, 2022
    • (Data Scientist ForsMarsh)
  • Sonja Winter, PhD, 2021
    • (Assistant Professor, Univ of Missouri, Columbia)
  • Johnny Felt, PhD, 2018
    • (Assistant Research Professor, Penn State)
  • Yuzhu (June) Yang, PhD, 2018
    • (Data Scientist, Twitter)
  • Sarah Scott, PhD, 2015
    • (Clinical Retraining)

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Interested in More Information?

For more information about the Quantitative Methods, Measurement, and Statistics (QMMS) Ph.D. program, please visit this page.

For information about our Statistical Workshop Series at UC Merced, visit this page.

If you need additional information about any of this, please email me at: sdepaoli [at] ucmerced [dot] com

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