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time series

noun

  1. a set of observations, results, or other data obtained over a period of time, usually at regular intervals:

    Monthly sales figures, quarterly inventory data, and daily bank balances are all time series.



time series

noun

  1. statistics a series of values of a variable taken in successive periods of time
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of time series1

First recorded in 1890–95
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Example Sentences

Generally speaking, autocorrelation is the tendency of a time series to be correlated with its past and future values.

There are rises in hospitalizations and deaths, though they occur only at the end of the time series, thanks in part to the fact that hospitalizations and deaths trail new infection data by several weeks, given how diseases unfold.

The past decade has seen a whole new crop of next-generation database models, from scale-out SQL to document to key-value stores to time series and on and on and on.

The living, biological flesh of the brain that lay inside the scanner has been transformed into a set of numerical time series.

In the previous lecture I sketched how the principle was applied to obtain the time-series.

History has its time-series, geography its network of spatial relations.

It argues from the characteristics of pure time to the properties necessary to the empirical representation of the time-series.

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