Ruth Mickey
{{Short description|American statistician}}
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Ruth Mary Mickey (born 1954){{r|born}} is a retired American statistician known for her research on feature selection to control the effects of confounding on statistical inference,{{r|confounding}} and on the applications of statistics to issues of public health and natural resources.{{r|abio}} She is a professor emerita in the University of Vermont Department of Mathematics & Statistics.{{r|profile}}
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.{{r|ucla}}
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){{r|as}}
- Bayesian Statistics for Beginners: A Step-by-Step Approach (with Therese M. Donovan, Oxford University Press, 2019){{r|bsb}}
References
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Reviews of Applied Statistics (3rd ed.):
- {{citation|last=Amin|first=Raid W.|date=November 2004|issue=4|journal=Technometrics|jstor=25470909|pages=491–492|title=none|volume=46|doi=10.1198/tech.2004.s236 }}
- {{citation|title=none|journal=zbMATH|first=Emiliana|last=Ursianu|zbl=1059.62075}}
- {{citation|date=August 2004|issue=3|journal=The American Statistician|jstor=27643573|page=262|title=none|volume=58}}
Reviews of Bayesian Statistics for Beginners:
- {{citation|last=Blumberg|first=Carol Joyce|date=May 2020|doi=10.1111/insr.12382|issue=2|journal=International Statistical Review|pages=514–515|title=none|volume=88}}
- {{citation|title=none|journal=zbMATH|first=Hirokazu|last=Nishimura|zbl=1416.62008}}
- {{citation|last=Perezgonzalez|first=Jose D.|date=May 2020|doi=10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01017|journal=Frontiers in Psychology|title=none|volume=11|page=1017 |doi-access=free|pmc=7248406}}
- {{citation|last=Saucier|first=Taylor|date=June 2020|doi=10.1002/jwmg.21915|issue=8|journal=The Journal of Wildlife Management|pages=1619–1620|title=none|volume=84}}
| last1 = Mickey | first1 = Ruth M.
| last2 = Greenland | first2 = Sander
| date = January 1989
| doi = 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a115101
| issue = 1
| journal = American Journal of Epidemiology
| pages = 125–137
| title = The impact of confounder selection criteria on effect estimation
| volume = 129| pmid = 2910056
}}
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Category:American statisticians
Category:American women statisticians