Bryan Shepherd, PhD Assistant Professor
E-mail:   bryan.shepherd@vanderbilt.edu     Phone:  615-343-3496   Fax:     615-343-4924   Office:  T-2317 MCN	Vanderbilt University School of Medicine    Department of Biostatistics S-2323 Medical Center North Nashville, TN 37232-2158

Research Interests

• causal inference
• sensitivity analyses
• applications in HIV/infectious diseases

Curriculum Vitae

• cv.pdf (last updated 3/17/2008)

Some Methods Papers

Does Finasteride Affect the Severity of Prostate Cancer? A Causal Sensitivity Analysis, with MW Redman and DP Ankerst, to appear in the Journal of the American Statistical Association

The Cost of Checking Proportional Hazards. This is a preprint of an article accepted for publication in Statistics in Medicine Copyright 2007.

Shepherd BE, Gilbert PB, Lumley T (2007). Sensitivity analyses comparing time-to-event outcomes existing only in a subset selected postrandomization. Journal of the American Statistical Association 102, 573-582. The published version can be found at Journal of the American Statistical Association

Shepherd BE, Gilbert PB, Mehrotra D (2007). Eliciting a Counterfactual Sensitivity Parameter. The American Statistician 102, 573-582. The published version can be found at The American Statistician

Shepherd BE, Gilbert PB, Jemiai Y, Rotnitzky A (2006). Sensitivity analyses comparing outcomes only existing in a subset selected post-randomization, conditional on covariates, with application to HIV vaccine trials. Biometrics 62, 332-342. Copyright The International Biometric Society, 2006. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of the International Biometric Society. The published version can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-0420.2005.00495.x

Web Applications

BootstrapProportionalHazards: Bootstraps the check and correction of the proportional hazards assumption

HIVSurvivalPrediction: Predicts ADE-free survival probability for patients initiating HAART

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