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Brady Thomas West

Faculty Associate, Population Studies Center and Research Associate Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research

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Biography

Brady T. West is a Research Associate Professor in the Survey Methodology Program, located within the Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research on the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (U-M) campus. He earned his PhD from the Michigan Program in Survey Methodology in 2011. Before that, he received an MA in Applied Statistics from the U-M Statistics Department in 2002, being recognized as an Outstanding First-year Applied Masters student, and a BS in Statistics with Highest Honors and Highest Distinction from the U-M Statistics Department in 2001. His current research interests include the implications of measurement error in auxiliary variables and survey paradata for survey estimation, survey nonresponse, interviewer variance, and multilevel regression models for clustered and longitudinal data. He is the lead author of a book comparing different statistical software packages in terms of their mixed-effects modeling procedures (Linear Mixed Models: A Practical Guide using Statistical Software, Second Edition, Chapman Hall/CRC Press, 2014), and he is a co-author of a second book entitled Applied Survey Data Analysis (with Steven Heeringa and Pat Berglund), the second edition of which was published by Chapman Hall in June of 2017. He lives in Dexter, MI with his wife Laura, his son Carter, his daughter Everleigh, and his American Cocker Spaniel Bailey.

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A More Efficient Web-Based Approach to Collecting National Family, Fertility and Reproductive Health Data A More Efficient Web-Based Approach to Collecting National Family, Fertility and Reproductive Health Data
Advancing the Science of Responsive Design Using Bayesian Methodology Advancing the Science of Responsive Design Using Bayesian Methodology
Indices of Selection Bias for Non-Probability Samples Indices of Selection Bias for Non-Probability Samples

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Institute for Social Research
4118 ISR, 426 Thompson Street
bwest@umich.edu

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