time series

1. 1.

   a series of values of a variable at successive times

   Broaderstatistic

   statistics

Questions about time series

What does time series mean?

time series means "a series of values of a variable at successive times".

Is time series a common word?

time series is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.