Ruth Mickey

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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]

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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:

References

  1. ↑ Birthdate from German National Library catalog entry, retrieved 2022-09-04
  2. ↑ Mickey, Ruth M.; Greenland, Sander (January 1989), "The impact of confounder selection criteria on effect estimation", American Journal of Epidemiology, 129 (1): 125–137, doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a115101, PMID   2910056
  3. ↑ "About the author", Publisher web page for Bayesian Statistics for Beginners, Oxford University Press, retrieved 2022-09-04
  4. ↑ "Ruth Mickey, Professor Emerita", Profiles, University of Vermont College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, retrieved 2022-09-04
  5. ↑ "Graduates 1983-1992", Biostatistics, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, retrieved 2022-09-04
  6. ↑ Reviews of Applied Statistics (3rd ed.):
  7. ↑ Reviews of Bayesian Statistics for Beginners:
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