About Maurice Priestley
Lived 1933 – 2013 (aged 80). Maurice Priestley was a British statistician, mathematician and university teacher.
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.
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Maurice Priestley was born on 15 March 1933.
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