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Overview

Stephen R. Cole is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, focusing primarily on Medicine and Mathematics, with a significant emphasis on Statistics and Probability and Infectious Diseases as subfields of study.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics including:

  • HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
  • Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
  • Statistical Methods and Inference
  • HIV/AIDS Drug Development and Treatment
  • Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference
  • HIV-related Health Complications and Treatments
  • Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials

Stephen R. Cole has authored numerous papers published across various venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • UNC Libraries
  • American Journal of Epidemiology
  • Epidemiology
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Statistics in Medicine

Recent publications demonstrate engagement with causal inference and epidemiological methods. Notable papers include:

  • Toward a Clearer Definition of Selection Bias When Estimating Causal Effects, 2022, Epidemiology
  • Introduction to computational causal inference using reproducible Stata, R, and Python code: A tutorial, 2021, Statistics in Medicine
  • AI Estimation of Gestational Age from Blind Ultrasound Sweeps in Low-Resource Settings, 2022, NEJM Evidence
  • Mortality Among Persons Entering HIV Care Compared With the General U.S. Population, 2021, Annals of Internal Medicine
  • G-computation for policy-relevant effects of interventions on time-to-event outcomes, 2020, International Journal of Epidemiology

Stephen R. Cole frequently collaborates with a number of co-authors in their research endeavors. Notable frequent co-authors include:

  • Jessie K. Edwards
  • Joseph J. Eron
  • Paul N. Zivich
  • Bonnie E. Shook-Sa
  • Daniel Westreich

Best Publications

  • Constructing Inverse Probability Weights for Marginal Structural Models

    Stephen R. Cole;Miguel A. Hernán;Miguel A. Hernán

  • Overadjustment bias and unnecessary adjustment in epidemiologic studies.

    Enrique F. Schisterman;Stephen R. Cole;Robert W. Platt

  • Competing Risk Regression Models for Epidemiologic Data

    Bryan Lau;Stephen R. Cole;Stephen J. Gange

  • Fruit and vegetable intake and risk of cardiovascular disease: the Women's Health Study

    Simin Liu;JoAnn E Manson;I-Min Lee;Stephen R Cole

  • Antiretroviral therapy and the prevalence and incidence of diabetes mellitus in the multicenter AIDS cohort study.

    Todd T. Brown;Stephen R. Cole;Xiuhong Li;Lawrence A. Kingsley

  • Timing of initiation of antiretroviral therapy in AIDS-free HIV-1-infected patients: a collaborative analysis of 18 HIV cohort studies.

    Jonathan A C Sterne;Margaret May;Dominique Costagliola;Frank de Wolf

  • Illustrating bias due to conditioning on a collider

    Stephen R Cole;Robert W. Platt;Enrique F. Schisterman;Haitao Chu

  • Impact of HIV Infection and HAART on Serum Lipids in Men

    Sharon A. Riddler;Ellen Smit;Stephen R. Cole;Rui Li

  • Adjusted survival curves with inverse probability weights.

    Stephen R. Cole;Miguel A. Hernán

  • Bivariate meta-analysis of sensitivity and specificity with sparse data: a generalized linear mixed model approach.

    Haitao Chu;Stephen R. Cole

  • A meta-analysis of the incidence of non-AIDS cancers in HIV-infected individuals.

    Meredith S. Shiels;Stephen R Cole;Gregory D. Kirk;Charles L Poole

  • Fallibility in estimating direct effects

    Stephen R Cole;Miguel A Hernán

  • The use of propensity scores to assess the generalizability of results from randomized trials

    Elizabeth A. Stuart;Stephen R. Cole;Catherine P. Bradshaw;Philip J. Leaf

  • Generalizing Evidence From Randomized Clinical Trials to Target Populations The ACTG 320 Trial

    Stephen R. Cole;Elizabeth A. Stuart

  • Intrinsic Breast Tumor Subtypes, Race, and Long-Term Survival in the Carolina Breast Cancer Study

    Katie M. O'Brien;Stephen R. Cole;Chiu Kit Tse;Charles M. Perou

  • Insomnia and heart disease: A review of epidemiologic studies

    Skai Schwartz;W. Mc Dowell Anderson;Stephen R. Cole;Joan Cornoni-Huntley

  • Selection Bias Due to Loss to Follow Up in Cohort Studies.

    Chanelle J. Howe;Stephen R. Cole;Bryan Lau;Sonia Napravnik

  • Design and methods of the Chronic Kidney Disease in Children (CKiD) prospective cohort study.

    Susan L. Furth;Stephen R. Cole;Marva Moxey-Mims;Frederick Kaskel

  • Intake of vegetables rich in carotenoids and risk of coronary heart disease in men: The Physicians' Health Study

    Simin Liu;I-Min Lee;Umed Ajani;Stephen R Cole

  • Blood Pressure in Children With Chronic Kidney Disease A Report From the Chronic Kidney Disease in Children Study

    Joseph T. Flynn;Mark Mitsnefes;Christopher Pierce;Steven R. Cole

Frequent Co-Authors

Haitao Chu
Haitao Chu University of Minnesota
Joseph J. Eron
Joseph J. Eron University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Richard D. Moore
Richard D. Moore Johns Hopkins University
Michael J. Mugavero
Michael J. Mugavero University of Alabama at Birmingham
Phyllis C. Tien
Phyllis C. Tien University of California, San Francisco
Adaora A. Adimora
Adaora A. Adimora University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Mardge H. Cohen
Mardge H. Cohen Rush University
Mari M. Kitahata
Mari M. Kitahata University of Washington
Michael S. Saag
Michael S. Saag University of Alabama at Birmingham
Kathryn Anastos
Kathryn Anastos Albert Einstein College of Medicine

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