Maurice Bertram Priestley (15 March 1933 – 15 June 2013^[1]) was a professor ofstatistics in theSchool of Mathematics, University of Manchester, England. He gained his first degree at theUniversity of Cambridge and went on to gain a Ph.D. from theUniversity of Manchester.

He was known especially for his work ontime series analysis, especially spectral analysis andwavelet analysis.^[2] He was a longstanding editor of theJournal 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.

• 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.

• Maurice Priestley at theMathematics Genealogy Project

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