Xinyuan Song (Chinese: 宋心遠) is a Chinese statistician known for her research on structural equation modeling and latent variables in Bayesian statistics.
With Sik-Yum Lee, she is a coauthor of the book Basic and Advanced Bayesian Structural Equation Modeling: With Applications in the Medical and Behavioral Sciences (Wiley, 2012).
[3] Her 2001 doctoral dissertation, Bayesian Analysis for Complex Structural Equation Models, was supervised by Sik-Yum Lee.
[4] Song was named as an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute in 2023,[5] and as a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 2024.
[6] She is the 2024 recipient of the President's Citation Award of the International Chinese Statistical Association.