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Economics (UK English,; US English) is "a social science concerned chiefly with description and analysis of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services" according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.

The discipline was renamed in the late 19th century primarily due to Alfred Marshall from "political economy" to "economics" as a shorter term for "economic science" at a time when it became more open to rigorous thinking and made increased use of mathematics, which helped support efforts to have it accepted as a science and as a separate discipline outside of political science and other social sciences.

Trade, or commerce, involves the transfer of goods and/or services from one person or entity to another, often in exchange for money.

A network that allows trade is called a market.

An economic indicator is a statistic about an economic activity.

Economic indicators allow analysis of economic performance and predictions of future performance.

One application of economic indicators is the study of business cycles.

Economic indicators include various indices, earnings reports, and economic summaries.

Examples: unemployment rate, quits rate (quit rate in U.S. English), housing starts, consumer price index (a measure for inflation), consumer leverage ratio, industrial production, bankruptcies, gross domestic product, broadband internet penetration, retail sales, stock market prices, money supply changes.

A time series is a series of data points indexed (or listed or graphed) in time order.

Most commonly, a time series is a sequence taken at successive equally spaced points in time.

Thus it is a sequence of discrete-time data.

Examples of time series are heights of ocean tides, counts of sunspots, and the daily closing value of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.