Maurice Bertram Priestley (15 March 1933 – 15 June 2013Tata Subba Rao and Granville Tunnicliffe-Wilson, Obituary: Maurice Priestley 1933–2013, IMS Bulletin on line 29 August 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.MB Priestley, Spectral Analysis and Time Series (Vols. 1 & 2). London: Academic Press, 1981. He was a longstanding editor of the Journal of Time Series Analysis, a special edition of which was published in his honour in 1993.Tata Subba Rao, editor, Developments in time series analysis: in honour of Maurice B. Priestley, London, Chapman and Hall, 1993. Less well-known but equally important was his work with M.T. Chao on nonparametric function fitting.
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