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Meng (Chris) Qiu

I'm an Assistant Professor of Quantitative Methods, Measurement, and Statistics at UC Merced. My work centers on quantitative methods for real-world data, spanning Bayesian and nonparametric modeling, latent variable modeling, and machine learning.

Ph.D. in Quantitative Psychology

Meng (Chris) Qiu
Focus Areas

Research

Methodological Research

Substantive Research

Selected Work

Publications

2026

Class selection in growth mixture models: Comparing information criteria to nonparametric and parametric Bayesian approaches

S. Depaoli, M. Qiu, H. Liu, & M. Jauregui
Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal
2025

Bayesian nonparametric latent class analysis with different item types

M. Qiu, S. Paganin, I. Ohn, & L. Lin
Psychological Methods
2024

Label switching in latent class analysis: Correct assignment of individuals, accuracy of parameter estimates and confidence intervals

M. Qiu & K.-H. Yuan
Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal
2022

A tutorial on Bayesian latent class analysis using JAGS

M. Qiu
Journal of Behavioral Data Science
In the classroom

Teaching

PSY 290 · Statistical Programming in R

Graduate

PSY 010 · Analysis of Psychological Data

Undergraduate
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Contact

Office
SSM 362A, University of California, Merced