Dr Kate Xu

Kate Xu is Assistant Professor in the Department of Pedagogical Sciences at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, and was an Associate of The Psychometrics Centre while previously at the University of Cambridge.  She is an applied statistician/epidemiologist, interested in methodological development of statistics applied in mental health, educational psychology, and ageing research. She works on time to event data from prospective population-based studies to identify how risk factors on the metabolic-cardiovascular pathway change with increasing age.

She also works on psychometric issues of behavioural measures in genetic association investigations, with focuses on development of reliable, robust phenotypes of cognition and mental health based on questionnaire and longitudinal cohort data, using latent variable techniques. 

She has a strong interest in empirical applications of latent variable methods. Specific types of modelling techniques I use in my research include: structural equation modelling, measurement invariance assessment, latent growth curve modelling, latent state-trait modelling, multilevel modelling and missing data imputation.

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