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Christopher Bingham is an American statistician who introduced the
Bingham distribution In statistics, the Bingham distribution, named after Christopher Bingham, is an antipodally symmetric probability distribution on the ''n''-sphere. It is a generalization of the Watson distribution and a special case of the Kent and Fisher–Bin ...
. In joint work with C. M. D. Godfrey and
John Tukey John Wilder Tukey (; June 16, 1915 – July 26, 2000) was an American mathematician and statistician, best known for the development of the fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm and box plot. The Tukey range test, the Tukey lambda distributi ...
he introduced
complex demodulation Complex commonly refers to: * Complexity, the behaviour of a system whose components interact in multiple ways so possible interactions are difficult to describe ** Complex system, a system composed of many components which may interact with each ...
into the analysis of
time series In mathematics, a time series is a series of data points indexed (or listed or graphed) in time order. Most commonly, a time series is a sequence taken at successive equally spaced points in time. Thus it is a sequence of discrete-time data. ...
. The
Kent distribution In directional statistics, the Kent distribution, also known as the 5-parameter Fisher–Bingham distribution (named after John T. Kent, Ronald Fisher, and Christopher Bingham), is a probability distribution on the unit sphere (2-sphere ''S''2 i ...
, also known as the Fisher–Bingham distribution, is named after Bingham and the English biologist and statistician
Ronald Fisher Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher (17 February 1890 – 29 July 1962) was a British polymath who was active as a mathematician, statistician, biologist, geneticist, and academic. For his work in statistics, he has been described as "a genius who a ...
. Bingham studied mathematics at
Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...
, receiving his PhD under the supervision of Alan Treleven James in 1964. His PhD theis was titled ''Distributions on the sphere and on the projective plane''. He subsequently worked as a research associate at
Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...
with
John Tukey John Wilder Tukey (; June 16, 1915 – July 26, 2000) was an American mathematician and statistician, best known for the development of the fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm and box plot. The Tukey range test, the Tukey lambda distributi ...
.


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Christopher Bingham
faculty web page * Living people 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians Fellows of the American Statistical Association American mathematical statisticians University of Minnesota faculty University of Chicago faculty Yale University alumni 1937 births People from New York City {{US-statistician-stub