Brady T. West

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 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 effects, 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 Hill in June 2017. Brady lives in Dexter, MI with his wife Laura, his son Carter, his daughter Everleigh, and his American Cocker Spaniel Bailey.

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Design Strategies for Maximizing Total Data Quality (Coursera)

Apr 1st 2024
Design Strategies for Maximizing Total Data Quality (Coursera)
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By the end of this third course in the Total Data Quality Specialization, learners will be able to: learn about design tools and techniques for maximizing TDQ across all stages of the TDQ framework during a data collection or a data gathering process; identify aspects of the data generating [...]

Measuring Total Data Quality (Coursera)

Apr 1st 2024
Measuring Total Data Quality (Coursera)
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By the end of this second course in the Total Data Quality Specialization, learners will be able to: learn various metrics for evaluating Total Data Quality (TDQ) at each stage of the TDQ framework; create a quality concept map that tracks relevant aspects of TDQ from a particular application [...]

The Total Data Quality Framework (Coursera)

Apr 1st 2024
The Total Data Quality Framework (Coursera)
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By the end of this first course in the Total Data Quality specialization, learners will be able to: identify the essential differences between designed and gathered data and summarize the key dimensions of the Total Data Quality (TDQ) Framework; define the three measurement dimensions of the Total Data Quality [...]

Fitting Statistical Models to Data with Python (Coursera)

In this course, we will expand our exploration of statistical inference techniques by focusing on the science and art of fitting statistical models to data. We will build on the concepts presented in the Statistical Inference course (Course 2) to emphasize the importance of connecting research questions to our [...]

Inferential Statistical Analysis with Python (Coursera)

In this course, we will explore basic principles behind using data for estimation and for assessing theories. We will analyze both categorical data and quantitative data, starting with one population techniques and expanding to handle comparisons of two populations. We will learn how to construct confidence intervals. We will [...]

Understanding and Visualizing Data with Python (Coursera)

In this course, learners will be introduced to the field of statistics, including where data come from, study design, data management, and exploring and visualizing data. Learners will identify different types of data, and learn how to visualize, analyze, and interpret summaries for both univariate and multivariate data. Learners [...]