NACDA Podcast 10 - Dr. Brady West and the Network for Innovative Methods in Longitudinal Aging Studies (NIMLAS)
Oct 11, 2022
This 40-minute podcast features Dr. Brady West:
- Research Professor at the Survey Research Center, located within the Institute for Social Research on the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor campus
- PhD from the Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science
- Currently focused on Survey Methodology, Survey Statistics, Applied Statistics
- Currently working on Methods for the design and analysis of longitudinal studies, collecting data using web and mail from national samples, data collection methodology for the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), responsive and adaptive survey design, modular survey data collection using smart phones, analytic tools for information adaptive interventions, methods for secondary analysis of linked data sets, and methods for quantifying selection bias in surveys
- 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, Third Edition, Chapman Hall/CRC Press, 2022
Resources mentioned in this podcast:
- Network for Innovative Methods in Longitudinal Aging Studies (NIMLAS)
- NIMLAS workshop mentioned: Applying Weights to Longitudinal Survey Data
- Health and Retirement Study (HRS)
- Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)
- AAPOR and regional chapters
- Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research (MAPOR)
- American Statistical Association
- ICPSR history – border building location
- CDC Mortality Detail Data
- Trivellore Raghunathan (Raghu) is a Professor of Biostatistics and a Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research