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-Bing ...

. In joint work with C. M. D. Godfrey and John Tukey he introduced complex demodulation into the analysis of

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. 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 ...

. Bingham studied mathematics at

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...

, 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 research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...

with John Tukey.

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Christopher Bingham
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