Maurice Bertram Priestley is emeritus professor of statistics

Statistics

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 in the School of Mathematics, University of Manchester

School of Mathematics, University of Manchester

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. He gained his first degree at the University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge

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 and went on to gain a Ph.D. from the University of Manchester

University of Manchester

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.

He is known especially for his work on time series analysis, especially spectral analysis and wavelet

Wavelet

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 analysis. He is a longstanding editor of the Journal of Time Series Analysis, a special edition of which was published in his honour in 1993.

External links

• Home page at Manchester Mathematics Staff Homepage