Ruth Mary Mickey (born 1954)^[1] is a retired American statistician known for her research on feature selection to control the effects of confounding on statistical inference,^[2] and on the applications of statistics to issues of public health and natural resources.^[3] She is a professor emerita in the University of Vermont Department of Mathematics & Statistics.^[4]

Education

Mickey earned a master's degree in public health at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1978, and completed a Ph.D. in biostatistics at UCLA in 1983.^[5]

Books

Mickey is the coauthor of textbooks in statistics including:

• Applied Statistics: Analysis of Variance and Regression (with Olive Jean Dunn and Virginia A. Clark, Wiley, 3rd ed., 2004)^[6]
• Bayesian Statistics for Beginners: A Step-by-Step Approach (with Therese M. Donovan, Oxford University Press, 2019)^[7]

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