time series
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time series (plural time series)
- (statistics) A set of data points, each of which represents the value of the same variable at different times, normally at uniform intervals.
- 1948, Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics; or, Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, 2nd edition, MIT Press, →ISBN, pages 8–9:
- The message is a discrete or continuous sequence of measurable events distributed in time—presicely what is called a time series by the statisticians.
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set of data points representing values of a variable at different times
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- time series on Wikipedia.Wikipedia