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] 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] Mickey is the coauthor of textbooks in statistics including: