Publications

  • Bauer, D. J., & Cai, L. (2009). Consequences of unmodeled nonlinear effects in multilevel models. Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 34, 97–114.
  • Bollen, K.A., Bauer, D.J., Christ, S.L., & Edwards, M.C. (2010). Overview of structural equation models and recent extensions. In S. Kolenikov, D. Steinley, & L. Thombs (Eds.), Statistics in the social sciences: Current methodological developments (pp. 37-79). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
  • Bonifay, W., & Cai, L. (2017). On the complexity of item response theory models. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 52(4), 465-484.
  • Burns, A. R., Hussong, A. M., Solis, J. M., Curran, P. J., McGinley, J. S., Bauer, D. J., … Zucker, R. A. (2016). Examining cohort effects in developmental trajectories of substance use. International Journal of Behavioral Development. Advance online publication. DOI: 1177/0165025416651734
  • Cai, L. (2006). Multi-response permutation procedure as an alternative to the analysis of variance: An SPSS implementation. Behavior Research Methods, 38, 51–59.
  • Cai, L. (2008). SEM of another flavour: Two new applications of the supplemented EM algorithm. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 61, 309–329.
  • Cai, L. (2010a). High-dimensional exploratory item factor analysis by a Metropolis-Hastings Robbins-Monro algorithm. Psychometrika, 75, 33-57.
  • Cai, L. (2010b). Metropolis-Hastings Robbins-Monro algorithm for confirmatory item factor analysis. Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 35, 307–335.
  • Cai, L. (2010c). A two-tier full-information item factor analysis model with applications. Psychometrika, 75, 581-612.
  • Cai, L. (2012). Latent variable modeling. Shanghai Archives of Psychiatry (Biostatistics in Psychiatry Section), 24, 118-120.
  • Cai, L. (2013a). Potential applications of latent variable modeling for the psychometrics of medical simulation. Military Medicine, 178, 115-120.
  • Cai, L. (2013b). Factor analysis of tests and items. In Geisinger, K. F. (Ed.), APA Handbook of Testing and Assessment in Psychology. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
  • Cai, L. (2013c). Three cheers for the asymptotically distribution free theory of estimation and inference: Some recent applications in linear and nonlinear latent variable modeling. In R.C. MacCallum, & M.C. Edwards (Eds.), Current Topics in the Theory and Application of Latent Variable Models. New York, NY: Taylor & Francis.
  • Cai, L. (2014). Development of the PROMIS nicotine dependence item banks. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 16, S190-S201.
  • Cai, L. (2015a). Two-tier item factor analysis modeling. In W. J. van der Linden (Ed.), Handbook of item response theory: Vol. 1. Boca Raton, FL: Chapman & Hall/CRC: Chapman & Hall.
  • Cai, L. (2015b). IRTPRO: Flexible, multidimensional, multiple categorical IRT modeling. In W. J. van der Linden (Ed.), Handbook of item response theory: Vol. 3. Boca Raton, FL: Chapman & Hall/CRC: Chapman & Hall.
  • Cai, L. (2015c). Lord-Wingersky algorithm version 2.0 for hierarchical item factor models with applications in test scoring, scale alignment, and model fit testing. Psychometrika, 80, 535-559.
  • Cai, L., Choi, K., & Kuhfeld, M. (2016). On the role of multilevel item response models in multisite evaluation studies for serious games. In H. F. O’Neil, E. L. Baker, R. S. Perez (Eds.) Using Games and Simulations for Teaching and Assessment: Key Issues (pp. 280-301). New York: Routledge.
  • Cai, L., Choi, K., Hansen, M. & Harrell, L. (2016). Item Response Theory. Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application 3, 297-321.
  • Cai, L., & Hansen, M. (2013). Limited-information goodness-of-fit testing of hierarchical item factor models. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 66, 245–276.
  • Cai, L., & Hansen, M. (2018). Improving educational assessment: Multivariate statistical methods. Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 5(1), 19-24.
  • Cai, L., & Hayes, A. F. (2008). A new test of linear hypotheses in OLS regression under heteroscedasticity of unknown form. Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 33, 21–40.
  • Cai, L., & Houts, C.R. (2019). Diagnostic classification modeling with flexMIRT. In Matthias von Davier and Young-Sun Lee (Eds.). Handbook of Diagnostic Classification Models: Models and Model Extensions, Applications, Software Packages (pp. 573-580). New York: Springer.
  • Cai, L., & Lee, T. (2009). Covariance structure model fit testing under missing data: An application of the supplemented EM algorithm. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 44, 281–304.
  • Cai, L., & Monroe, S. (2013). Commentary: IRT model fit evaluation from theory to practice: Progress and some unanswered questions. Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspective, 11, 102–106.
  • Cai, L., & Moustaki, I. (2018). Estimation methods in latent variable models for categorical outcome variables. In P. Irwing, T. Booth & D. Hughes (Eds.), The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Psychometric Testing: A Multidisciplinary Reference on Survey, Scale and Test Development (pp. 253-277). West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
  • Cai, L., & Thissen, D. (2014). Modern approaches to parameter estimation in item response theory. In S. P. Reise & D. Revicki (Eds.), Handbook of Item Response Theory Modeling: Applications to Typical Performance Assessment. New York, NY: Taylor & Francis.
  • Cai, L., Maydeu-Olivares, A., Coffman, D. L., & Thissen, D. (2006). Limited-information goodness-of-fit testing of item response theory models for sparse 2P British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 59, 173–194.
  • Cai, L., Yang, J. S. & Hansen, M. (2011). Generalized full-information item bifactor analysis. Psychological Methods, 16, 221–248.
  • Carle, A. C., Cella, D., Cai, L., Choi, S. W., Crane, P. K., Curtis, S. M., Gruhl, J., Lai, J., Mukherjee, S., Reise, S., Teresi, J., Thissen, D., Wu, E. J., & Hays, R. (2011). Advancing PROMIS’s methodology: Results of the third PROMIS Psychometric Summit. Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research, 11, 677–684.
  • Carrig, M.M., Wirth, R.J., & Curran, P.J. (2004). A SAS macro for estimating and visualizing individual growth curves. Structural Equation Modeling, 11, 132-149.
  • Chang, E.C., Sanna, L.J., Riley, M.M., Thornburg, A.M., Zumberg, K.M., & Edwards, M.C. (2007). Relations between problem-solving styles and psychological adjustment in young adults: Is stress a mediating variable? Personality and Individual Differences, 42,135-144.
  • Chassin, L., Curran, P.J., Presson, C.C., Sherman, S.J., & Wirth, R.J. (2008). Developmental trajectories of cigarette smoking from adolescence to adulthood. Phenotypes and endophenotypes: Foundations for genetic studies of nicotine use and dependence (Tobacco Control Monograph No. 20). US Department of Health and Human Services, NIH, National Cancer Institute: NIH Publication.
  • Chassin, L., Presson, C.C., Seo, D.-C., Sherman, S.J., Macy, J., Wirth, R.J., & Curran, P.J. (2008). Multiple trajectories of cigarette smoking and the intergenerational transmission of smoking: a multigenerational, longitudinal study of a Midwestern community sample. Health Psychology, 27, 819 – 828.
  • Chung, S., & Houts, C. (2020). flexMIRT: A flexible modeling package for multidimensional item response models. Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 18(1), 40-54.
  • Cole, D. A., Cai, L., Martin, N. C., Findling, R. L., Youngstrom, E. A., Garber, J., Curry, J. F., Hyde, J. S., Essex, M. J., Compas, B. E., Goodyer, I. M., Rohde, P., Stark, K. D., Slattery, M. J., & Forehand, R. (2011). Structure and measurement of depression in youth: Applying item response theory to clinical data. Psychological Assessment, 23, 819-33.
  • Crosnoe, R., Leventhal, T., Wirth, R.J., Pierce, K.M., & Pianta, R.C. (2010). Family socioeconomic status and consistent environmental stimulation in early childhood. Child development, 81, 972-987.
  • Curran, P. J., Howard, A., Bainter, S., Lane, S., & McGinley J. S. (2014). The separation of between-person and within-person components of individual change over time: A latent curve model with structured residuals. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 82(5), 879-894.
  • Curran, P. J., Hussong, A. M., Cai, L., Huang, W., Chassin, L., Sher, K. J., & Zucker, R. A. (2008). Pooling data from multiple prospective studies: The role of item response theory in integrative analysis. Developmental Psychology, 44, 365–380.
  • Curran, P. J., McGinley, J. S., Bauer, D. J., Hussong, A. M., Burns, A., Chassin, L., Sher, K., & Zucker, R. (2014). A moderated nonlinear factor model for the development of commensurate measures in integrative data analysis. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 49(3), 214-231.
  • Curran, P. J., McGinley, J. S., Serrano, D., & Burfeind, C. (2012). A multivariate growth curve model for three-level data. The Handbook of Research Methods in Psychology. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
  • Curran, P.J., & Wirth, R.J., (2004). Individual differences in intraindividual variation: Balancing internal and external validity. Measurement, 2, 219-227.
  • Curran, P.J., Edwards, M.C., Wirth, R.J., Hussong, A.M., & Chassin, L. (2007). The incorporation of categorical measurement models in the analysis of individual growth. In T.D. Little, J.A. Bovaird, & N.A. Card (Eds.), Modeling contextual effects in longitudinal studies (pp. 89-120). Mahwah, NJ: LEA.
  • David, P., Lu, T., Kline, S., & Cai, L. (2007). Social effects of an anthropomorphic help agent: The fairness of man and machine. Cyber Psychology and Behavior, 10, 471–474.
  • Dermody, S. S., McGinley, J., Eckstrand, K., & Marshal, M. P. (2019). Sexual minority female youth and substance use disparities across development. Journal of LGBT Youth, 17(2), 214-229.
  • Du, H., Edwards, M.C., Zhang, Z. Bayes factor in one sample tests of means with a sensitivity analysis: A discussion of separate prior distributions. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 1998-2021.
  • Edelen, M. O., Tucker, J. S., Shadel, W. G., Stucky, B. D., & Cai, L. (2012). Toward a more systematic assessment of smoking: Development of a smoking module for PROMIS. Addictive Behaviors, 37, 1278–1284.
  • Edelen, M. O., Tucker, J. S., Shadel, W. G., Stucky, B. D., Cerully, J., Li, Z., Hansen, M., & Cai, L. (2014). Development of the PROMIS health expectancies of smoking item banks. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 16, S223-S231.
  • Edelen, M., Stucky, B., Hansen, M., Tucker, J., Shadel, W., & Cai, L. (2014). The PROMIS smoking initiative: Initial validity evidence for six new smoking item banks. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 16, S250-S260.
  • Edwards, M.C. (2009). An introduction to item response theory using the Need for Cognition Scale. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 3, 507-529.
  • Edwards, M.C. (2010). A Markov chain Monte Carlo approach to confirmatory item factor analysis. Psychometrika, 75, 474-497. DOI: 10.1007/s11336-010-9161-9
  • Edwards, M.C. (2013). Purple unicorns, true models, and other things I’ve never seen. Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 11, 107-111.
  • Edwards, M.C., Cheavens, J.S., Heiy, J.E., & Cukrowicz, K.C. (2010). A reexamination of the factor structure of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale: Is a one-factor model plausible? Psychological Assessment, 22, 711-715.
  • Edwards, M.C., & Edelen, M.O. (2009). Special topics in item response theory. In R.E. Millsap and A. Maydeu-Olivares (Eds.), The SAGE handbook of quantitative methods in psychology (pp. 178-198). New York, NY: Sage Publications.
  • Edwards, M.C., Flora, D.B., Thissen, D. (2012). Multi-stage computerized adaptive testing with uniform item exposure. Applied Measurement in Education, 25, 118-141.
  • Edwards, M.C., & Houts, C.R. (2017). A Conceptual Overview of Computerized Adaptive Testing. Value and Outcomes Spotlight, 3(1), 11-12.
  • Edwards, M.C., Houts, C.R., & Cai, L. (2018). A diagnostic procedure to detect departures from local independence in item response theory models. Psychological Methods, 23, 138-149.
  • Edwards, M.C., Houts, C.R., & Wirth, R.J. (2018). Measurement invariance, or the lack thereof, and modeling change. Quality of Life Research, 27(7), 1735-1743.
  • Edwards, M.C., & MacCallum, R.C. (2012a). Complexity and meaning in latent variable modeling. In M.C. Edwards & R.C. MacCallum (Eds.), Current issues in the theory and application of latent variable models(pp.1-8). New York, Y: Taylor & Francis.
  • Edwards, M.C., & MacCallum, R.C. (Eds.) (2012b). Current issues in the theory and application of latent variable models. New York, NY: Taylor & Francis.
  • Edwards, M.C., Slagle, A., Rubright, J.D., & Wirth. R.J. Fit for purpose and modern validity theory in clinical outcomes assessment. Quality of Life Research, 27, 1711-1720.
  • Edwards, M.C., & Vevea, J.L. (2006). An empirical Bayes approach to subscore augmentation: How much strength can we borrow? Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 31, 241-259.
  • Edwards, M.C., & Wirth, R.J. (2009). Measurement and the study of change. Research in Human Development, 6, 74-96.
  • Edwards, M.C., & Wirth, R.J. (2012). Valid measurement without factorial invariance: A longitudinal example. In J.R. Harring & G.R. Hancock(Eds.), Advances in longitudinal methods in the social and behavioral sciences (pp. 289-311). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.
  • Edwards, M.C., Wirth, R.J., Houts, C.R., & Bodine, A.J. (2015). Three (or four) factors, four (or three) models. In S. P. Reise & D. Revicki (Eds.), Handbook of item response theory modeling: Applications to typical performance assessment (pp. 159-182). New York, NY: Routledge.
  • Edwards, M.C., Wirth, R.J., Houts, C.R., & Xi, N. (2012). Categorical data in the structural equation modeling framework. In R. Hoyle (Ed.), Handbook of structural equation modeling (pp. 195-208). New York, NY: Guilford Press.
  • Emmert, M. C., & Cai, L. (2015). A pilot study to test the effectiveness of an innovative interprofessional education assessment strategy. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 29, 451-456.
  • Ennett, S. T., Bauman, K. E., Hussong, A., Faris, R., Foshee, V. A., DuRant, R., & Cai, L. (2006). The peer context of adolescent substance use: Findings from social network analysis. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 16, 159–186.
  • Ennett, S. T., Faris, R., Hipp, J., Foshee, V. A., Bauman, K. E., Hussong, A. M., & Cai, L. (2008). Peer smoking, other peer attributes, and adolescent cigarette smoking: A social network analysis. Prevention Science, 9, 88–98.
  • Ennett, S. T., Foshee, V. A., Bauman, K. E., Hussong, A. M., Cai, L., Reyes, H.L.M, … Durant, R. (2008). The social ecology of adolescent alcohol misuse. Child Development, 79, 1777-1791.
  • Ennett, S. T., Foshee, V. A., Bauman, K. E., Hussong, A. M., Faris, R., Hipp, J.R., & Cai, L. (2010). A social contextual analysis of youth cigarette smoking development. Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 12, 950-962.
  • Ennett, S.T., Jackson, C., Cole, V.T., Haws, S., Foshee, V.A., Reyes, H.L.M., … Cai, L. (2016). A multidimensional model of mothers’ perceptions of parent alcohol socialization and adolescent alcohol misuse. Psychology of addictive behaviors 30 (1), 18-28.
  • Falk, C. F., & Cai, L. (2015). A flexible full-information approach to the modeling of response styles. Psychological Methods. Advance online publication. DOI: 1037/met0000059
  • Falk, C. F., & Cai, L. (2016a). Maximum marginal likelihood estimation of a monotonic polynomial generalized partial credit model with applications to multiple group analysis. Psychometrika, 81, 434-460.
  • Falk, C.F., & Cai, L. (2016b). Semiparametric Item Response Functions in the Context of Guessing. Journal of Educational Measurement 53 (2), 229-247.
  • Flora, D.B., Curran, P.J., Hussong, A.M., & Edwards, M.C (2008). Incorporating measurement nonequivalence in a cross-study latent growth curve analysis. Structural Equation Modeling, 15, 676-704.
  • Gibbons, R.D., Alegria, M., Cai, L., Herrera, L, Markle, S.L., Collazos, F., & Baca-Garcia, E. (2018). Successful validation of the CAT-MH Scales in a sample of Latin American migrants in the United States and Spain. Psychological Assessment, 30(10), 1267-1276.
  • Gibbons, R.D., & Cai, L. (2017). Dimensionality assessment. In W. J. van der Linden (Ed.), Handbook of item response theory: Vol. 3 (pp. 47-65). Boca Raton, FL: Chapman & Hall/CRC: Chapman & Hall.
  • Green, J.P., Houts, C.R., & Capafons, A. (2012). Attitudes about hypnosis: Factor analyzing the VSABTH-C with an American sample. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 54, 167-178.
  • Gunn, H.J., Grimm, K.J., & Edwards, M.C. (2020). Evaluation of six effect size measures of measurement non-invariance for continuous outcomes. Structural Equation Modeling, 27, 503-514.
  • Hansen, M., Cai, L., Monroe, S., & Li, Z. (2016). Limited‐information goodness‐of‐fit testing of diagnostic classification item response models. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1111/bmsp.12074
  • Hansen, M., Cai, L., Stucky, B. D., Tucker, J. S., Shadel, W. G., & Edelen, M.O. (2014). Methodology for developing and evaluating the PROMIS smoking item banks. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 16, S175-S189.
  • Hayes, A. F., & Cai, L. (2007). Further evaluating the validity of the conditional decision rule for comparing two independent means. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 60, 217–244.
  • Hayes, A. F., & Cai, L. (2008). Using heteroscedasticity-consistent standard error estimators in OLS regression: An introduction and software implementation. Behavior Research Methods, 39, 709–722.
  • Hill, C.D., Edwards, M.C., Thissen, D., Langer, M.M., Wirth, R.J., Burwinkle, T.M., & Varni, J.W. (2007). Practical issues in the application of item response theory: A demonstration using the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL) 4.0 Generic Core Scales. Medical Care, 45, S39-S47.
  • Houts, C.R., & Edwards, M.C. (2013). The performance of local dependence measures with psychological data. Applied Psychological Measurement, 37, 541-562.
  • Houts, C.R., & Edwards, M.C. (2015). Comparing surface and underlying local dependence levels via polychoric correlations. Applied Psychological Measurement, 39(4), 293 – 302.
  • Houts, C.R., Edwards, M.C., Wirth, R.J., & Deal, L. (2016). A review of empirical research related to the use of small quantitative samples in clinical outcome scale development. Quality of Life Research, 25, 2685-2691.
  • Houts, C.R., McGinley, J.S., Nishida, T.K., Buse, D.C., Wirth, R.J., Dodick, D.W., Goadsby, P.J. & Lipton, R.B. (in press). Systematic review of outcomes and endpoints in acute migraine clinical trials. Headache.
  • Houts, C.R., Morlock, R., Blum, S.I., Edwards, M.C., & Wirth, R.J. (2018). Scale development with small samples: A new application of longitudinal item response theory. Quality of Life Research, 27(7), 1721-1734.
  • Houts, C.R., Patrick-Lake, B. Clay, I., & Wirth, R.J. (2020). The path forward for digital measures: Suppressing the desire to compare apples and pineapples. Digital Biomarkers, 4(S1), 3-12.
  • Houts, C.R., & Knoll, M.A.Z. (2020). The financial knowledge scale: New analyses, findings, and development of a short form. Journal of Consumer Affairs, 54, 775-800.
  • Houts, C.R., McGinley, J.S., Wirth, R.J., Cady, R., & Lipton, R.B. (2020). Reliability and validity of the 6-item Headache Impact Test in chronic migraine from the PROMISE-2 study. Quality of Life Research, Online preprint. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-020-02668-2.
  • Houts, C. R., Wirth, R.J, McGinley, J.S, Cady, R., & Lipton, R.B. (2020). Determining thresholds for meaningful change for the Headache Impact Test (HIT-6) total scores and item-specific scores in chronic migraine. Headache, 60(9), 2003-2013.
  • Houts, C.R., Wirth, R.J., McGinley, J.S., Gwaltney, C., Kassel, E., Snapinn, S., & Cady, R., (2020). Content validity of the HIT-6 as a measure of headache impact on people with migraine: A narrative review. Headache, 60, 28-39.
  • Huang, W., Stucky, B.D., Edelen, M.O., Tucker, J.S., Shadel, W.G., Hansen, M., & Cai, L. (2016). Calibration of the Spanish PROMIS Smoking Item Banks. Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 18 (7), 1635-1641.
  • Hussong, A. M., Cai, L., Curran, P. J., Flora, D. B., Chassin, L. A., & Zucker, R. A. (2008). Disaggregating the distal, proximal, and time-varying effects of parent alcoholism on children’s internalizing symptoms. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 36, 335–346.
  • Hussong, A.M., Wirth, R.J., Edwards, M.C., Curran, P.J., Chassin, L.A., & Zucker, R.A. (2007). Externalizing symptoms among children of alcoholic parents: Entry points for an antisocial pathway to alcoholism. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 116, 529-542.
  • IsHak, W. W., Bonifay, W., Collison, K., Youssef, H., Parisi, T., Cohen, R. M., Cai, L. (2017). The recovery index: A novel approach to measuring recovery and its association with remission in major depressive disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders, 208, 369-374.
  • Joseph, H. M., Farmer, C., Kipp, H., Kolko, D., Aman, M., McGinley, J., Arnold, L. E., Gadow, K. D., Findling, R. L., & Molina, B. S. (2018). Attendance and engagement in parent training predict child behavioral outcomes in children pharmacologically treated for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and severe aggression. Journal of child and adolescent psychopharmacology, 29(2), 90-99.
  • Kim, J.J., Silver, R.K., Elue, R., Adams, M.G., La Porte, L.M., Cai, L., … Gibbons, R.D. (2016). The experience of depression, anxiety, and mania among perinatal women. Archives of Women’s Mental Health. Advance online publication. doi:10.1007/s00737-016-0632-6
  • Knoll, M.A.Z & Houts, C.R. (2012). The Financial Knowledge Scale: An application of item response theory to the assessment of financial literacy. Journal of Consumer Affairs, 46(3), 381 – 410.
  • Lecavalier, L., Gadow, K.D., DeVincent, C.J., & Edwards, M.C. (2009). Validation of DSM-IV model of psychiatric syndromes in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 39, 278-289.
  • Lecavalier, L., Gadow, K.D., DeVincent, C.J., Houts, C.R., & Edwards, M.C. (2009). Deconstructing the PDD clinical phenotype: Internal validity of the DSM-IV. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 50, 1246-1254.
  • Lecavalier, L., Gadow, K.D., DeVincent, C.J., Houts, C.R., & Edwards, M.C. (2011). Validity of DSM-IV syndromes in preschoolers with autism spectrum disorders. Autism, 15, 527-543.
  • Lecci, L. & Wirth, R.J. (2000). Investigating the effects of physical discomfort on laboratory-induced mood states. Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry, 31, 231-247.
  • Lecci, L. & Wirth, R.J. (2006). Methodological and practical issues in the experience, induction, and assessment of mood states. In. A.V. Clark (Ed.) Psychology of Moods: New Research (pp. 37-55). New York: Nova Science Publishers
  • Lee, C., Zhang, G., & Edwards, M.C. (2012). Ordinary least squares estimation of parameters in exploratory factor analysis with ordinal data. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 47, 314-339.
  • Lee, T., & Cai, L. (2012). Alternative multiple imputation inference for mean and covariance structure modeling. Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 37, 675-702.
  • Lee, T., Cai, L., & Kuhfeld, M. (2016). A poor person’s posterior predictive checking of structural equation models. Structural Equation Modeling, 23, 206-220.
  • Lee, T., Cai, L., & MacCallum, R. C. (2012). Power analysis for tests of structural equation models. In R. Hoyle (Ed.), Handbook of structural equation modeling (pp. 181–194). New York, NY: Guilford.
  • Li, Z., & Cai, L. (2018). Summed score likelihood-based indices for testing latent variable distribution fit in item response theory. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 78(5), 857-886.
  • Lipton, R. B., McGinley, J. S., Shulman, K. J., Silberstein, S. D., Wirth, R. J., & Buse, D. C. (2018). AVP‐825 (Sumatriptan Nasal Powder) Reduces Nausea Compared to Sumatriptan Tablets: Results of the COMPASS Randomized Clinical Trial. Headache, 58(2), 229-242.
  • Lipton, R. B., McGinley, J. S., Shulman, K. J., Wirth, R. J., & Buse, D. C. (2017). Faster Improvement in Migraine Pain Intensity and Migraine‐Related Disability at Early Time Points with AVP‐825 (Sumatriptan Nasal Powder Delivery System) versus Oral Sumatriptan: A Comparative Randomized Clinical Trial Across Multiple Attacks from the COMPASS Study. Headache, 57(10), 1570-1582.
  • Liu, H., Hays, D., Marcus, M., Couler, I., Maida, C., Ramos-Gomez, F., …, Cai, L., & Crall, J. (2016). Patient-reported oral health outcome measurement for children and adolescents. BMC Oral Health, 16, 1-9.
  • MacCallum, R. C., Browne, M. W., & Cai, L. (2006). Testing differences between nested covariance structure models: Power analysis and null hypotheses. Psychological Methods, 11, 19–35.
  • MacCallum, R. C., Browne, M. W., & Cai, L. (2007). Factor analysis models as approximations: some history and some implications. In R. Cudeck & R. C. MacCallum (Eds.), Factor analysis at 100: Historical developments and future directions (pp. 153–175). Mahwah, NJ: Laurence Erlbaum Associates.
  • MacCallum, R. C., Edwards, M. C., & Cai, L. (2012). Commentary: Hopes and cautions in implementing Bayesian structural equation modeling. Psychological Methods, 17, 340-345.
  • Maida, C.A., Marcus, M., Hays, R.D., Coulter, I.D., Ramos-Gomez, F. Lee, S.Y., … Liu, H. (2015). Child and adolescent perceptions of oral health over the life course. Quality of Life Research 24 (11), 2739-2751.
  • Malarkey, W.B., David, P., Gouin, J.P., Edwards, M.C., Klatt, M., & Zautra, A.J. (2016). REMAP—a Resilience Resources Measure for Prediction and Management of Somatic Symptoms. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine. Advance online publication. DOI: 1007/s12529-016-9559-6
  • Marshal, M. P., Dietz, L. J., Friedman, M. S., Stall, R., Smith, H. A., McGinley, J., Thoma, B. C., Murray, P. J., D’Augelli, A., & Brent, D. A. (2011). Suicidality and Depression Disparities between Sexual Minority and Heterosexual Youth: A Meta-Analytic Review. Journal of Adolescent Health, 49(2), 115-123.
  • Maydeu-Olivares, A., & Cai, L. (2006). A cautionary note on using G2(dif) to assess relative model fit in categorical data analysis. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 41, 55–64.
  • Maydeu-Olivares, A., Cai, L., & Hernandez, A. (2011). Comparing the fit of IRT and factor analysis models. Structural Equation Modeling, 18, 333–356.
  • McAlearney, A.S., Gregory, M., Walker, D.M., & Edwards, M.C. (2021). Development and validation of an organizational readiness to change instrument focused on cultural competency. Health Services Research Journal, 56, 145-153.
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