« Back

Brady T. West Author of Evaluating Organization Development
FEATURED AUTHOR

Brady T. West

Research Associate Professor
Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan

I am an applied statistician and survey methodologist who is actively involved in original research, teaching, and consulting related to survey research and survey analysis. For more information, including my CV, you can visit my personal web site at http://www.umich.edu/~bwest.

Subjects: Statistics

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. He also serves as a Statistical Consultant on the Consulting for Statistics, Computing, and Analytics Research (CSCAR) team on the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 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), which was published by Chapman Hall in April 2010 and has a second edition that is currently (October 2016) in production. He lives in Dexter, MI with his wife Laura, his son Carter, his daughter Everleigh, and his American Cocker Spaniel Bailey.

Education

    PhD, Survey Methodology, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 2011
    MA, Applied Statistics, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 2002

Areas of Research / Professional Expertise

    Multilevel modeling, interviewer effects, survey paradata, total survey error, analysis of complex sample survey data, survey nonresponse, statistics in sports

Personal Interests

    Basketball, Football, Weightlifting, Statistics in Sports, Spending Time with Family and Friends

Books

Featured Title
Featured Title - Linear Mixed Models A Practical Guide 2e - 1st Edition book cover
Applied Survey Data Analysis - 1st Edition book cover
Linear Mixed Models A Practical Guide Using Statisti - 1st Edition book cover