Substantive Research

Psychopathology

Modeling the structure of mental disorders, including mixture-model approaches to depression phenotyping.

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About this work

In collaboration with clinical researchers, I apply mixture models and latent variable methods to questions about the structure and heterogeneity of mental disorders — for example, identifying subtypes in depression (phenotyping).

The goal is to bring rigorous quantitative modeling to substantive questions in psychopathology while being careful about what these models can and cannot support.

Selected Work

Related publications

2024

Mixture model applications in depression phenotyping: Practices, challenges, and recommendations

Q. Liu, M. Qiu, B. A. Nestor, V. J. Rodriguez, & D. A. Cole
Current Psychology