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{{Short description|American statistician}}
'''Christopher Bingham''' is an American statistician who introduced the [[Bingham distribution]].  In joint work with C.&nbsp;M.&nbsp;D.&nbsp;Godfrey and [[John Tukey]] he introduced [[complex demodulation]] into the analysis of [[time series]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bingham |first1=C. |last2=Godfrey |first2=M. |last3=Tukey |first3=J. |title=Modern techniques of power spectrum estimation |journal=IEEE Transactions on Audio and Electroacoustics |date=June 1967 |volume=15 |issue=2 |pages=56–66 |doi=10.1109/TAU.1967.1161895 |s2cid=1023902 }}</ref> The [[Kent distribution]], also known as the Fisher–Bingham distribution, is named after Bingham and the English biologist and statistician [[Ronald Fisher]].<ref>{{cite conference |last1=Jaakkola |first1=Tommi S. |last2=Haussler |first2=David |date=1998 |title=Exploiting generative models in discriminative classifiers |conference=Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems |pages=487–493 |url=https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/1998/hash/db1915052d15f7815c8b88e879465a1e-Abstract.html }}</ref>

Bingham studied mathematics at [[Yale University]], receiving his PhD under the supervision of Alan Treleven James in 1964.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Christopher Bingham - The Mathematics Genealogy Project |url=https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=15106 |access-date=2023-04-26 |website=www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu}}</ref> His PhD theis was titled ''Distributions on the sphere and on the projective plane''.<ref>{{cite thesis |id={{ProQuest|287951312}} |last1=Bingham |first1=Christopher |date=1964 |title=Distributions on the sphere and on the projective plane }}</ref> He subsequently worked as a research associate at [[Princeton University]] with [[John Tukey]].

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==External links==
* [http://www.stat.umn.edu/~kb/ Christopher Bingham] faculty web page
* {{mathgenealogy|name=Christopher Bingham|id=15106}}

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