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    • 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 Associate Professor and Area Head of Quantitative Methods, Measurement, and Statistics at the University of California, Merced. Her research interests are largely focused on issues surrounding Bayesian estimation of latent variable models.

Associate Editor:
Psychological Methods, 2019-present
Multivariate Behavioral Research, 2017-present

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,"

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

Elected member of the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology (SMEP), 2016-present
Recipient of the 2020 Early Career Alumni Award, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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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In The News

  • 2019:
  • Congrats to Sonja for a first authored paper on approximate measurement invariance in IJBD (methods and measures section)!.
  • Lydia Marvin to join the Depaoli lab (also co-advised with Dr. Haiyan Liu) in August.
  • Patrice Cobb was hooded at May 2019 commencement, and then accepted a job at Facebook!
  • Congrats to Marieke Visser for a great presentation in April on 3-step approaches to LCA during the department's first year talks!
  • Sonja Winter (along with former Ph.D. graduate, Katie Coburn) lead a workshop on building Shiny Apps in April.
  • Sarah Depaoli becomes Associate Editor of Psychological Methods, January 2019.
  • 2018:
  • Sanne Smid, PhD student from Utrecht University, visited during the month of October 2018 to continue work with Sarah Depaoli on Bayesian priors.
  • Yuzhu (June) Yang is now Dr. Yang! She successfully defended her dissertation (September 2018) and is now a Quantitative Researcher at Gartner, Arlington, VA. Congrats, June! We will miss you tons!
  • Marieke Visser joins the Depaoli Lab as a new PhD student, coming from Texas State University
  • Johnny Felt successfully defended his dissertation (June 2018) and will start as a postdoctoral fellow at Penn State later this summer. Congrats, Johnny! We will miss you!
  • Johnny Felt and June Yang received their PhD hoods at the May 2018 Commencement ceremony! Johnny's hooding made it to the official video!
  • Johnny Felt was featured as "Bobcat of the Month" for September!
  • 2017:
  • Sonja Winter published a paper using Bayes Factors applied to research with robots
  • Sanne Smid to join Depaoli Lab as visiting PhD student from Utrecht University (September 2017)
  • Sarah Depaoli promoted to Associate Professor (July 2017)
  • June Yang and Patrice Cobb passed their candidacy exams in summer 2017!! Congrats!
  • 2016 and earlier:
  • Sarah, June, and Johnny publish new paper in Structural Equation Model: A Multidisciplinary Journal on Bayesian mixture models
  • Sarah, James, and Patrice publish new paper in Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics on Jags
  • Sarah and James publish new paper in Health Psychology Review on Bayesian statistics
  • Sarah and Sonja publish new paper in Psychological Methods on Bayesian statistics in Psychology
  • Sonja Winter joins the Depaoli Lab as a new PhD student, coming from Utrecht University
  • Johnny Felt passed his candidacy exam in June 2016!! Congrats!
  • James Clifton, Patrice Cobb, and June Yang presented at Modern Modeling Methods Conference, UConn, May 2016
  • Sarah Depaoli elected into the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology, April 2016
  • Sarah Depaoli received Rising Star (Early Career) Award from the Association for Psychological Sciences, Quantitative Psychology, December 2015
  • Sarah Scott receives her PhD! Summer 2015

Meet the Lab

Director:
-Sarah Depaoli, PhD

Ph.D. Students:

  • Patrice Cobb (6th year)
  • Lydia Marvin (1st year)
  • Marieke Visser (2nd year)
  • Sonja Winter (4th year)

Visiting Doctoral Students:

  • Sanne Smid, 2018, 2017 (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
  • Inge Schrooten, 2016 (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)

Ph.D. Graduates:

  • Yuzhu (June) Yang, 2018 (Quantitative Researcher at Gartner)
  • Johnny Felt, 2018 (postdoctoral fellow at Penn State)
  • Sarah Scott, 2015 (entered PhD clinical retraining program)

You can learn more about them and their research interests here.

Interested in Graduate Study?

More information about the Quantitative Psychology Ph.D. program at UC Merced can be found here.

Also, feel free to contact me for more information about the Quantitative Psychology graduate program at UC Merced:

Email: sdepaoli [at] ucmerced [dot] edu

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