Maurice Priestley
Maurice Priestley | |
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| Born | 15 March 1933 |
| Died | 15 June 2013 (aged 80) |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | University of Manchester |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistics |
| Institutions | University of Manchester |
| Doctoral advisor | M. S. Bartlett |
| Doctoral students | Howell Tong |
Maurice Bertram Priestley (15 March 1933 – 15 June 2013) was a professor of statistics in the School of Mathematics, University of Manchester, England. He gained his first degree at the University of Cambridge and went on to gain a Ph.D. from the University of Manchester.
He was known especially for his work on time series analysis, especially spectral analysis and wavelet analysis. He was a longstanding editor of the Journal of Time Series Analysis, a special edition of which was published in his honour in 1993. Less well-known but equally important was his work with M.T. Chao on nonparametric function fitting.