Analysis
There are several types of data analysis available for time series which are appropriate for different purposes.
In the context of statistics, econometrics, quantitative finance, seismology, meteorology, geophysics the primary goal of time series analysis is forecasting, in the context of signal processing, control engineering and communication engineering it is used for signal detection and estimation while in the context of data mining, pattern recognition and machine learning time series analysis can be used for clustering, classification, query by content, anomaly detection as well as forecasting.
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