Maurice Priestley

Maurice Bertram Priestley (15 March 1933 – 15 June 2013^[1]) 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.

Maurice Priestley
Born	(1933-03-15)15 March 1933
Died	15 June 2013(2013-06-15) (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

He was known especially for his work on time series analysis, especially spectral analysis and wavelet analysis.^[2] He was a longstanding editor of the Journal of Time Series Analysis, a special edition of which was published in his honour in 1993.^[3] Less well-known but equally important was his work with M.T. Chao on nonparametric function fitting.

Selected publications

• Priestley, M. B. (1971). "Time-dependent spectral analysis and its application in prediction and control". Journal of Sound and Vibration. 17 (4): 517–534. Bibcode:1971JSV....17..517P. doi:10.1016/0022-460X(71)90064-2.
• Priestley, M. B. (1980). "State-Dependent Models: A General Approach to Non-Linear Time Series Analysis". Journal of Time Series Analysis. 1: 47–71. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9892.1980.tb00300.x.
• Priestley, M. B. (1996). "Wavelets and Time-Dependent Spectral Analysis". Journal of Time Series Analysis. 17: 85–103. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9892.1996.tb00266.x.
• Chao, M. T.; Priestley, M. B. (1972). "Non-parametric function fitting". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B. 34 (3): 385–392. doi:10.1111/j.2517-6161.1972.tb00916.x.