Brady T. West

Brady T. West serves as a Research Associate Professor in the Survey Methodology Program at the University of Michigan’s Survey Research Center, part of the Institute for Social Research. He earned his PhD in Survey Methodology from Michigan in 2011, following an MA in Applied Statistics in 2002 and a BS in Statistics with Highest Honors in 2001, both from the same institution. His research focuses on the implications of measurement error in auxiliary variables and survey paradata for survey estimation, along with survey nonresponse, interviewer effects, and multilevel regression models for clustered and longitudinal data. West is the lead author of Linear Mixed Models: A Practical Guide using Statistical Software, Second Edition (2014, Chapman Hall/CRC Press) and co-author of Applied Survey Data Analysis (2017, Chapman Hill) with Steven Heeringa and Pat Berglund. Residing in Dexter, MI, he enjoys family life with his wife, Laura, their children, Carter and Everleigh, and their American Cocker Spaniel, Bailey.