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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 245: Probability and Statistics
STAT 442/542: Mathematical Statistics II
STAT 447/547: Nonparametric Statistics
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)
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)
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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