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

Word History and Origins

Origin of time series¹

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

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

From FiveThirtyEight

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.

From Washington Post

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.

From TechCrunch

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

From Nautilus

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg