Nationality British Name Maurice Priestley Doctoral advisor M. S. Bartlett | Died June 15, 2013 | |
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Born 15 March 1933 ( 1933-03-15 ) Books Spectral Analysis and Time Series, Non-linear and non-stationary time series analysis | ||
Education Manchester Grammar School |
Maurice Bertram Priestley (15 March 1933 – 15 June 2013) was a professor of statistics in the School of Mathematics, University of Manchester. 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.
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