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Li Cai (psychometrician)

Li Cai (Chinese: 蔡力; pinyin: Cài Lì; born c. 1980) is


a statistician and quantitative psychologist. He is a Li Cai
professor of Advanced Quantitative Methodology at 蔡力
the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Born c. 1980 (age 43–44)
Information Studies with a joint appointment in the Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
quantitative area of the UCLA Department of Alma mater Nanjing University
Psychology. He is also Director of the National Center Ohio State University
for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student University of North Carolina
Testing, Managing Partner at Vector Psychometric
Known for Invention and proof of
Group (https://www.vpgcentral.com/about/people/li-ca
correctness of a solution for
i/).
latent variable models that were
He invented the Metropolis–Hastings Robbins–Monro considered intractable
algorithm for inference in high-dimensional latent Awards AERA Outstanding Quantitative
variable models that had been intractable with existing Dissertation (2009)
solutions. The algorithm was recognized as a NCME (https://www.ncme.org/nc
mathematically rigorous breakthrough in the "curse of me/NCME/About/Awards/Brenda
dimensionality" and garnered numerous top-tier _Loyd_Award/NCME/About1/Aw
publications and national awards.[1][2][3][4][5] ardsFolder/Loyd_Award.aspx)
Brenda H. Loyd Award (2009)
APA Anne Anastasi Distinguished
Career Early Career Award (2011)
SMEP Cattell Award (2012)
A native of Nanjing, China and alumnus of the Nanjing NSF PECASE (2012)
Foreign Language School, Cai earned a bachelor's FABBS (https://www.fabbs.org/h
degree with distinction from Nanjing University in onoring-our-scientists/former-aw
2001. He completed his undergraduate studies in three ard-winners/2015-impact-award-
years and, in that time, also won multiple international winners/) Early Career Impact
competitions for public speaking.[6] After earning a Award (2015)
master's degree in journalism at Ohio State University Scientific career
in 2003, he moved to the University of North Carolina
Fields Statistics
at Chapel Hill, earning a second master's in
Psychometrics
mathematical statistics in 2006 and PhD in quantitative
psychology in 2008.[7] Institutions UCLA
CRESST
Thesis A Metropolis–Hastings Robbins–
Monro algorithm for maximum
likelihood nonlinear latent
structure analysis with a
comprehensive measurement
model
He joined the psychology and education faculty at the Doctoral David Thissen
University of California, Los Angeles in 2008 and was advisor
awarded tenure in 2011. He was appointed a full
professor in 2014.

Research
Cai publishes methodology in statistics (including statistical computing) and psychometrics, and conducts
applied research in educational measurement, health outcomes, and developmental psychology. He serves
on the editorial boards of various journals in quantitative methods in the social sciences.

Software
Cai develops flexMIRT, a statistical program for multilevel modeling and multidimensional item
response theory.[8] In addition, he is the coauthor (with David Thissen, his doctoral advisor) of IRTPRO,
another program for parametric estimation and test scoring.[9]

References
1. Cai, Li (2010). "High-dimensional Exploratory Item Factor Analysis by a Metropolis–Hastings
Robbins–Monro Algorithm" (https://escholarship.org/content/qt3hx0175j/qt3hx0175j.pdf?t=l7
nx98) (PDF). Psychometrika. 75: 33–57. doi:10.1007/s11336-009-9136-x (https://doi.org/10.
1007%2Fs11336-009-9136-x).
2. Cai, Li (2010). "Metropolis-Hastings Robbins-Monro Algorithm for Confirmatory Item Factor
Analysis". Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics. 35 (3): 307–335.
doi:10.3102/1076998609353115 (https://doi.org/10.3102%2F1076998609353115).
S2CID 122919429 (https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:122919429).
3. "My CV" (http://lcai.bol.ucla.edu/cv.html).
4. "Outanding Quantitative Dissertation" (http://www.aera.net/Division-D/Awards/Outanding-Qu
antitative-Dissertation).
5. "Loyd Award" (https://web.archive.org/web/20170316120420/https://www.ncme.org/ncme/N
CME/About/Awards/Brenda_Loyd_Award/NCME/About1/AwardsFolder/Loyd_Award.aspx).
Archived from the original (https://www.ncme.org/ncme/NCME/About/Awards/Brenda_Loyd_
Award/NCME/About1/AwardsFolder/Loyd_Award.aspx) on 2017-03-16. Retrieved
2017-03-16.
6. "南大校友获美国"青年科学家总统奖",他告诫学子：认清自己更有益（现代快报）" (http://ww
w.nfls.com.cn/_t6/09/e2/c502a2530/page.htm).
7. "南京大学外国语学院" (https://web.archive.org/web/20170316114323/http://www.sfs.nju.ed
u.cn/show.php?catid=320&id=249). Archived from the original (http://www.sfs.nju.edu.cn/sho
w.php?catid=320&id=249) on 2017-03-16. Retrieved 2017-03-16.
8. "FlexMIRT® – Vector Psychometric Group" (https://web.archive.org/web/20170316115154/h
ttps://www.vpgcentral.com/software/irt-software/). Archived from the original (https://www.vp
gcentral.com/software/irt-software/) on 2017-03-16. Retrieved 2017-03-16.
9. "SSI - Scientific Software International, Inc" (http://www.ssicentral.com/irt/).

External links
Li Cai's homepage (http://lcai.bol.ucla.edu/)
Li Cai's profile at the UCLA GSE&IS (https://gseis.ucla.edu/directory/li-cai/)
Li Cai's publications on Google Scholar (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Mmb75U
MAAAAJ)

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