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Brady Thomas West
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Faculty Associate, Population Studies Center, Research Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, Adjunct Lecturer in Quantitative Methods and Social Sciences Program, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and Research Professor, Biostatistics, School of Public Health
Research Interests:
Brady T. West is a 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. 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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- Engstrom,Curtiss, Brady Thomas West, Schepis, Ty S., McCabe,Sean Esteban. 2024. Does the approach used to measure sexual identity affect estimates of health disparities differently by race? A randomized experiment from the National Survey of Family Growth. Social Science & Medicine 350:116887.
- Burton,Paul, Lee,Sunghee, Raghunathan,Trivellore E, Brady Thomas West. 2024. Combining Information from Multiple Data Sources to Improve Sampling Efficiency. methods, data, analyses
- Brady Thomas West, Ma,Yongchao, Stephen Lankenau, Carolyn Wong, Erin E. Bonar, Megan Patrick, Maureen A. Walton, McCabe,Sean Esteban. 2024. Latent transition analysis of time-varying cannabis use motives to inform adaptive interventions. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors
- Brady Thomas West, Si,Yajuan, Hu,Yueying, McCabe,Sean Esteban, Veliz,Philip Todd. 2024. The role of weighting adjustment for attrition in longitudinal trajectory modeling: a simulation study. Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation
- Zhang,Shiyu, Brady Thomas West, Wagner,James Robert, Gatward,Rebecca. 2024. Incorporating Adaptive Survey Design in a Two-Stage National Web or Mail Mixed-Mode Survey: An Experiment in the American Family Health Study. Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology 12(3):578-592.
- Antoun,Christopher, Xin (Rosalynn) Yang, Brady Thomas West, Ong,Ai Rene. 2024. Developing a Modular Survey App Using Co-design Principles. Field Methods
- Arianna M. Gard, Luke Hyde, Heeringa,Steven G, Brady Thomas West, Colter Mitchell. 2023. Why weight? Analytic approaches for large-scale population neuroscience data. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 59:101196.
- Zhang,Shiyu, Brady Thomas West, Wagner,James Robert, Mick Couper, Gatward,Rebecca, William G Axinn. 2023. Visible Cash, a Second Incentive, and Priority Mail? An Experimental Evaluation of Mailing Strategies for a Screening Questionnaire in a National Push-To-Web/Mail Survey. Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology 11(5):1011-1031.
- Seidenberg, Andrew B, Moser, Richard P, Brady Thomas West. 2023. Preferred Reporting Items for Complex Sample Survey Analysis (PRICSSA). Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology 11(4):743-757.
- Wagner,James Robert, Zhang,Xinyu, Elliott,Michael R, Brady Thomas West, Coffey, Stephanie M. 2023. An experimental evaluation of a stopping rule aimed at maximizing cost-quality trade-offs in surveys. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society