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Highlights
Pamela Smock elected to PAA Committee on Publications
Viewing the eclipse from ISR-Thompson
Paula Fomby to succeed Jennifer Barber as Associate Director of PSC
PSC community celebrates Violet Elder's retirement from PSC
Mon, Sept 11, 2017, noon:
Welcoming of Postdoctoral Fellows: Angela Bruns, Karra Greenberg, Sarah Seelye and Emily Treleaven
Brady T. West
Funded Research:
Disparities in Diabetes Comorbidities and Multiple Chronic Conditions (NIDDK)
Health, Stress, and Tobacco Use Disparities among Sexual Minority Populations (NCI)
Responsive Design for Efficient Survey Data Collection: An Education Program (NICHD)
E-Cigarette Use and Longitudinal Changes in Cigarette Smoking and Health (NCI)
Trajectories of Nonmedical Prescription Drug Misuse (NIDA)
Longitudinal Changes in Recovery from Drug Use Disorders: A National Study (NIDA)
Evaluation of 2012 FoodAPS (USDA)
NCSES Surveys (NSF)
Extending the Longitudinal Study of American Youth into a Study of Aging (NIA)
Sampling Weights and Data Analysis for the Medical Monitoring Project Provider Survey (CDC)
Effective Observational Strategies for Health Survey Interviewers (NICHD)
The Initiation of a New Cohort of the Longitudinal Study of American Youth (LSAY) (NSF)
Research Affiliate, Population Studies Center.
Research Associate Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research.
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Dr. West's 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 the book Linear Mixed Models: A Practical Guide Using Statistical Software and co-author of the book Applied Survey Data Analysis.
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Books
Biemer, P.P., S. Eckman, B. Edwards, L. Lyberg, C. Tucker, E. de Leeuw, F. Kreuter, and Brady T. West. Forthcoming. Total Survey Error: Improving Quality in the Era of Big Data. Wiley.
Lavrakas, P.J., M. Traugott, C. Kennedy, E.D. de Leeuw, A. Holbrook, and Brady T. West. Forthcoming. Experimental Methods in Survey Research: Techniques that Combine Random Sampling with Random Assignment. Wiley.
West, Brady T., Kathleen B. Welch, and Andrezej T. Galecki. 2014. Linear Mixed Models: A Practical Guide Using Statistical Software, Second Edition. Boca Raton, FL: Chapman & Hall/CRC.
Heeringa, Steven, Brady T. West, and Patricia A. Berglund. 2010. Applied survey data analysis. Boca Raton : Taylor & Francis. Abstract.
West, Brady T., Kathleen B. Welch, and Andrezej T. Galecki. 2006. Linear Mixed Models: A Practical Guide using Statistical Software. Boca Raton, FL: Chapman & Hall/CRC.
Journal Articles
Beer, Linda, John Weiser, Brady T. West, Chris Duke, Garrett Gremel, and Jacek Skarbinski. Forthcoming. "Delivery of HIV Transmission Risk-Reduction Services by HIV Care Providers in the United States—2013." Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care. DOI. Abstract.
McCabe, S., K. Dickinson, Brady T. West, and T. Wilens. 2016. "Age of Onset, Duration, and Type of Medication Therapy for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Substance Use During Adolescence: A Multi-Cohort National Study." Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 55(6): 479-486. DOI.