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Brady West
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Research Professor @ Univ. of MI Institute for Social Research (ISR) and Department of Biostatistics. Usually discussing statistics, surveys, sports, music, and leadership. Personal website: www.umich.edu/~bwest

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Brady Thomas West is an American statistician, academic and author. He is a research professor in the Survey Methodology Program (SMP) at the Survey Research Center (SRC) in the Institute for Social Research (ISR), and a research professor in the Department of Biostatistics within the School of Public Health, both at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He also serves as an Adjunct Research Professor in the Joint Program in Survey Methodology (JPSM) at the University of Maryland, College Park and as an Adjunct Instructor at the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. .. more

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Brady West @bradytwest.bsky.social · 9h
This was amazing…!

All the makings of a pretty special team. #HAIL
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Michigan freshman Oscar Goodman gets a huge slam and the bench completely loses it

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 10h
Michigan freshman Oscar Goodman gets a huge slam and the bench completely loses it

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UM Population Studies Center @um-psc.bsky.social · 1d
Mark your calendar for the next, hybrid half-day PDHP Workshop with @d3center.bsky.social experts, covering Adaptive Interventions: Dec. 12! Register at pdhp.isr.umich.edu/workshops/ @leb112358.bsky.social
PDHP workshop

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UM SRC @um-src.bsky.social · 1d
Hanyu Sun & Fred Conrad examine the differences in interviewer and respondent paralinguistic behaviors (such as “uh” and “um” or laughter) between video and in-person interviews and whether these difference influence respondents' answers myumi.ch/rAPZ7
How Does Video Interviewing Affect the Interviewers’ and Respondents’ Paralinguistic Behaviors? A First Exploration | methods, data, analyses
methods, data, analyses (mda)
myumi.ch

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Brady West @bradytwest.bsky.social · 2d
The Lions defense has been beyond awful all day. Like, what is this? You are letting Jameis Winston do whatever he wants. Just absolutely inexcusable.

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Brady West @bradytwest.bsky.social · 4d
Heads up! If you are interested in pursuing graduate studies in survey and data science (read: all things quantitative social science) at the University of Michigan, please check out these upcoming info sessions!

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Erika McEntarfer @erikamcentarfer.bsky.social · 5d
So great to see BLS back to work measuring and informing us about our large and dynamic economy.

It’s a great institution full of dedicated civil servants deeply committed their mission. They have had a tough year, and everyone is covering for someone who left. I thank them all for their service.

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Brady West @bradytwest.bsky.social · 7d
How about these Pistons??? 😮‍💨😤💯

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ICPSR @icpsr.bsky.social · 7d
ICYMI: watch the #sbeccc webinar and view the presentation slides from @bradytwest.bsky.social on ICPSR's YouTube channel: myumi.ch/kPRXk
Webinar recording now available: myumi.ch/kPRXk

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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 8d
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.

Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
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Submit a Claim
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UM SRC @um-src.bsky.social · 8d
Meet Zachary Winograd, student at the Michigan Program for Survey and Data Science and research assistant at @d3center.bsky.social at the Survey Research Center (SRC)!

Learn more about the MPSDS and students here: surveydatascience.isr.umich.edu

#masters #research #datascience

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Brady West @bradytwest.bsky.social · 10d
Chat GPT tells me that what happened in the Michigan football game today has never happened before (Div. 1, playing on road, 5 turnovers, 2 missed field goals, still win):

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Nick Baumgardner @nickbaumgardner.bsky.social · 10d
interesting little "need to get your shit together asap" moment here for ol' Sherrone Moore's Michigan

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Brady West @bradytwest.bsky.social · 10d
OK, it’s clear to everyone and their brother that Michigan cannot trust Zvada. Like, enough. Sherrone needs to go for it on 4th and short, every time.

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Brady West @bradytwest.bsky.social · 11d
A road win is a road win, but man Michigan has got to fix the careless turnover problem. Been an issue for two straight years with completely different players…🤨

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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 13d
Survey Statistics: weights and MRP for voters
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/11/11/s...
Survey Statistics: weights and MRP for voters | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu

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Brady West @bradytwest.bsky.social · 14d
This May 6-8 (2026), I will be offering a three-day online short course on practical tools for the analysis of complex sample survey data (with weights, strata, clusters, replicate weights, etc.) via Statistical Horizons:

statisticalhorizons.com/seminars/ana...

Click the link for additional info!
Complex Survey Data | Online Seminar | Statistical Horizons
Brady West, Ph.D. teaches this online seminar on complex survey data. Learn design-based methods to analyze weighted, stratified, and clustered samples.
statisticalhorizons.com

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Brady West @bradytwest.bsky.social · 17d
This was an absolute all-timer of a Gus Johnson call, which is appropriate given how utterly incredible the catch was. Crazy!
bubbaprog.xyz Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 17d
GUS-SPLOSIUON

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 17d
GUS-SPLOSIUON

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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 19d
LLMs are now widely used in social science as stand-ins for humans—assuming they can produce realistic, human-like text

But... can they? We don’t actually know.

In our new study, we develop a Computational Turing Test.

And our findings are striking:
LLMs may be far less human-like than we think.🧵
Computational Turing Test Reveals Systematic Differences Between Human and AI Language
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in the social sciences to simulate human behavior, based on the assumption that they can generate realistic, human-like text. Yet this assumption rem...
arxiv.org

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Statistical Horizons @stathorizons.bsky.social · 19d
Struggling with missing data? Join Paul Allison for "Missing Data Using R", a 4-week on-demand seminar starting Nov. 17. You'll learn maximum likelihood & multiple imputation—two of the most powerful #missingdata solutions using #Rstats.
Missing Data Using R | On-Demand Seminar | Statistical Horizons
Paul Allison, Ph.D., teaches this self-paced course on missing data using R, covering multiple imputation and maximum likelihood for accurate, unbiased results.
statisticalhorizons.com

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APDU @apduorg.bsky.social · 20d
Data scientists perform last rites for ‘dearly departed datasets’ in 2nd Trump administration

Thank you @mikeysid.bsky.social for covering the loss of public data.

apnews.com/article/cens...
Data scientists perform last rites for 'dearly departed datasets' in 2nd Trump administration
A group of U.S. data scientists has published a list of federal datasets that have been altered or removed since President Donald Trump returned to the White House.
apnews.com

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Ben Schneider @bschneidr.bsky.social · 20d
New blog post: open-source software packages have surprising problems with the way they calculate weighted medians and other quantiles.

www.practicalsignificance.com/posts/weight...

#rstats #julialang
Weighted Quantile Weirdness and Bugs – Practical Significance
Computing quantiles is surprisingly complicated. It gets much weirder when you use weights, and popular software behaves in surprising ways that might trouble you.
www.practicalsignificance.com

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Brady West @bradytwest.bsky.social · 22d
Sooo Michigan Hoops might be as good as advertised this year? 😳

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UM SRC @um-src.bsky.social · 22d
@tschepis.bsky.social, Philip Veliz, @bradytwest.bsky.social, Jason A. Ford, and Sean Esteban McCabe used national survey data to identify motive classes for nonmedical tranquilizer use among US teens & young adults and explored links to other substance use and mental health outcomes myumi.ch/XykGZ
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UM SRC @um-src.bsky.social · 22d
Roderick Little contributed Pattern-Mixture Models for Missing Data to the JAMA Guide to Statistics and Methods. In the essay, Little discusses the advantages and limitations of pattern-mixture models which allow the predictive distribution of missing variables myumi.ch/bVwZk
Pattern-Mixture Models for Missing Data
This JAMA Guide to Statistics and Methods article discusses designing and implementing clinical trials to minimize the number of missing data.
myumi.ch

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UM Population Studies Center @um-psc.bsky.social · 22d
Mark your calendar for next week's free, online half-day PDHP Workshop with @alussier.bsky.social: demonstrating the Structured Life Course Modelling Approach (SLCMA) applied to High Dimensional Data. Register at psc.isr.umich.edu/events/pdhp-...
PDHP workshop

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Brady West @bradytwest.bsky.social · 23d
Just very odd out of a bye week. Did they not see film showing that the Vikings blitz a lot? 🙄