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Melissa Bingham
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Professor
Mathematics & Statistics
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Melissa Bingham Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Professor
Mathematics & Statistics
Specialty area(s)
Statistics for Directional Data; Statistics for Three-Dimensional Rotation Data
Brief biography
I have been a faculty member in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at UWL since 2009. In addition to teaching statistics courses for the department every semester, I also serve as the Program Director for the M.S. in Applied Statistics program. I advise all Applied Stats M.S. and dual degree B.S./M.S. stats students and am happy to answer questions related to both programs from prospective students.
Current courses at UWL
STAT 145: Elementary Statistics
STAT 441/541: Mathematical Statistics I
Education
Ph.D. Statistics, Iowa State University, May 2009.
M.S. Mathematics, University of North Dakota, August 2004.
B.S. Mathematics, University of North Dakota, December 2002.
Career
Teaching history
STAT 145: Elementary Statistics (F09-S23, F24)
STAT 245: Probability and Statistics (F09, S12, S17, F17, S19-S24)
STAT 405/505: Statistical Methods (F10, F11, F23)
STAT 440: Statistical Consulting (F12-S14)
STAT 441/541: Mathematical Statistics I (F14, F18, F19, F22, F23, F24)
STAT 442/542: Mathematical Statistics II (S11, S15, S19, S20, S23, S24)
STAT 443/543: Categorical Data Analysis (F16)
STAT 445/545: Correlation and Regression Analysis (F15)
STAT 446/546: Analysis of Variance and Design of Experiments (S16)
STAT 447/547: Nonparametric Statistics (S18, S22, S24)
Professional history
Professor, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, July 2018 - present.
Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, July 2013 - June 2018.
Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, August 2009 - June 2013.
Graduate Teaching and Research Assistant, Iowa State University, August 2004 - May 2009.
Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of North Dakota, January 2003 - August 2004.
Research and publishing
My research area involves developing new statistical techniques for analyzing data in the form of three-dimensional rotations. Publications are listed below. Authors with an asterisk (*) by their name were a UWL undergraduate student at the time the research was conducted.
- Bingham, M.A. (2023) "A Permutation Test for Comparing Multiple Measures of Center in Three-Dimensional Rotation Data," Electronic Journal of Applied Statistical Analysis, 16:3, 711-721.
- Bingham, M. A., Scray, M. L.* (2017) "A Permutation Test for Comparing Rotational Symmetry in Three-Dimensional Rotation Data Sets," Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications, 4:19, 1-8.
- Eckrote, M. D.*, Bingham, M. A. (2017) "A Permutation Test for the Spread of Three-Dimensional Rotation Data," Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, 29, 553-560.
- Will, L. K.*, Bingham, M. (2016) "Bootstrap Techniques for Measures of Center for Three-Dimensional Rotation Data," Involve, 9, 583-590.
- Bingham, M. (2015) "Quantifying Spread in Three-Dimensional Rotation Data: Comparison of Nonparametric and Parametric techniques," Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications, 2:9, 1-8.
- Bero, D.*, Bingham, M. (2015) "A Permutation Test for Three-Dimensional Rotation Data," Involve, 8, 735-744.
- Bingham, M., Fischer, Z.* (2014) "A Median Estimator for 3-Dimensional Rotation Data," Involve, 7, 713-722.
- Bingham, M. A., Nordman, D. J., and Vardeman, S. B. (2012) "Bayes Inference for a New Class of Non-symmetric Distributions for 3-Dimensional Rotations," Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics, 17, 527-543.
- Bingham, M. A., Lograsso, B. K., and Laabs, F. C. (2010) "A Bayes Statistical Analysis of the Variation in Crystal Orientations Obtained through Electron Backscatter Diffraction," Ultramicroscopy, 110, 1312-1319.
- Bingham, M. A., Nordman, D. J., and Vardeman, S. B. (2010) "Finite-Sample Investigation of Likelihood and Bayes Inference for the Symmetric von Mises-Fisher Distribution," Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 54, 1317-1327.
- Bingham, M. A., Nordman, D. J., and Vardeman, S. B. (2009) "Modeling and Inference for Measured Crystal Orientations and a Tractable Class of Symmetric Distributions for Rotations in 3 Dimensions," Journal of the American Statistical Association, 104, 1385-1397.
- Bingham, M. A., Vardeman, S. B., and Nordman, D. J. (2009) "Bayes One-Sample and One-Way Random Effects Analyses for 3-D Orientations with Application to Materials Science," Bayesian Analysis, 4, 607-630.
- Nordman, D. J., Vardeman, S. B., and Bingham, M. A. (2009) "Uniformly Hyper-Efficient Bayes Inference in a Class of Non-Regular Problems," The American Statistician, 63, 234-238.
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