Ruth Mary Mickey (born 1954) is a retired American statistician known for her research on
feature selection to control the effects of
confounding
In statistics, a confounder (also confounding variable, confounding factor, extraneous determinant or lurking variable) is a variable that influences both the dependent variable and independent variable, causing a spurious association. Con ...
on
statistical inference
Statistical inference is the process of using data analysis to infer properties of an underlying probability distribution, distribution of probability.Upton, G., Cook, I. (2008) ''Oxford Dictionary of Statistics'', OUP. . Inferential statistical ...
, 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 (UCLA) 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'' (with
Olive Jean Dunn and
Virginia A. Clark
Virginia Ann Clark (née Leader, 1928–2018) was an American statistician, professor emeritus of biostatistics at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the coauthor of several books on statistics.
Life
Clark was born in 1928, in Gran ...
, Wiley, 3rd ed., 2004)
*''Bayesian Statistics for Beginners: A Step-by-Step Approach'' (with Therese M. Donovan, Oxford University Press, 2019)
References
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1954 births
Living people
American statisticians
American women statisticians
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
University of Vermont faculty