Brady West

Brady West
Associate Director

Contact Information

4118 Institute for Social Research
426 Thompson St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48106

Phone: (734) 647-4615
Email: [email protected]

Education

Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2011
M.A., University of Michigan, 2002
B.S., University of Michigan, 2001

Research and Projects

Interviewer Effects, Total Survey Error, Uses of Survey Paradata and Auxiliary Variables for Survey Estimation and Operations, Multilevel Modeling, Methods for Repairing Nonresponse Error, Adaptive / Responsive Survey Designs, Applications of Linear Modeling, Statistical Software, Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data, Applications of Statistics to Sports, Analysis of Clustered and Longitudinal Data Sets

Selected Recent Publications

Schroeder H, West BT. Analyzing Potential Non-Ignorable Selection Bias in an Off-Wave Mail Survey Implemented in a Long-Standing Panel Study. Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology. 2025;13(1):100-127. doi:10.1093/jssam/smae039
Zhao C, Schroeder HM, West BT. Analyses of 2020 HRS Sample Representativeness. Ann Arbor, MI: Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan; 2025.PDF icon Download PDF (299.3 KB)
Schroeder H, Weir DR, West BT. Representativeness of the oversamples of Blacks and Hispanics in the Health and Retirement Study: A geographic analysis of 2020. Ann Arbor, MI: Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan; 2023.PDF icon Download PDF (350 KB)
Wagner J, Zhang X, Elliott MR, West BT, Coffey SM. 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. 2023. doi:10.1093/jrsssa/qnad059