Here are a few other papers, which do not fit into one of my larger areas of specific research topics, but that I think are kind of fun and worth highlighting. A complete list of all my publications is on my CV.
Shepherd BE. The cost of checking proportional hazards. Statistics in Medicine 2008; 27: 1248-1260. link
Shepherd BE, Blevins M, Vaz LME, Moon TD, Kipp AM, Jose E, Ferreira FG, Vermund SH. Impact of definitions of loss to follow-up on estimates of retention, disease progression, and mortality: Application to an HIV program in Mozambique. American Journal of Epidemiology 2013; 178: 819-828. link
Giganti MJ, Luz PM, Caro-Vega Y, Cesar C, Padgett D, Koenig S, Echevarria J, McGowan CC, Shepherd BE. A comparison of seven Cox regression-based models to account for heterogeneity across multiple HIV treatment cohorts in Latin America and the Caribbean. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses 2015; 31: 496-503. link
Shepherd BE, Rebeiro PF. Assessing and interpreting the association between continuous covariates and outcomes in observational studies of HIV using splines. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 2017; 74: e60-e63. link
Shepherd BE, Blevins Peratikos M, Rebeiro PF, Duda SN, McGowan CC. A pragmatic approach for reproducible research with sensitive data. American Journal of Epidemiology 2017; 186: 387-392. link