Ruth Mickey


Ruth Mary Mickey is a retired American statistician known for her research on feature selection to control the effects of confounding on statistical inference, and on the applications of statistics to issues of public health and natural resources. She is a professor emerita in the University of Vermont Department of Mathematics & Statistics.

Education

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

Books

Mickey is the coauthor of textbooks in statistics including:
  • Applied Statistics: Analysis of Variance and Regression
  • ''Bayesian Statistics for Beginners: A Step-by-Step Approach''