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Brady T. West is a Collegiate Research 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, and also in the Department of Biostatistics in the School of Public Health. He earned his PhD from the Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science 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, selection bias in surveys, responsive and adaptive survey design, interviewer effects, the analysis of complex sample survey data, 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, Third Edition, Chapman Hall/CRC Press, 2022), and of a second book entitled Applied Survey Data Analysis (with Steven Heeringa and Pat Berglund), the third edition of which was published by Chapman Hall in April of 2025. He lives in Dexter, MI with his wife Laura, his son Carter, and his daughter Everleigh.