adatsorokban

Adatsorokban is a Hungarian term used to describe data organized as sequences of values. The expression can refer to a single variable’s sequence of observations (an adatsor) or to data arranged as rows in a table (adatsorokban). The suffix -ban indicates location or context, roughly translating to “in data series” or “within data rows.” The term is common in statistics, data science and information technology and appears in textbooks, reports and software documentation.

Linguistically, adatsor means a data sequence, and -ban denotes a locative case. Thus adatsorokban conveys the idea of data being encountered or stored in a linear, ordered form. The concept is neutral and widely applicable across disciplines that handle structured data.

In practice, adatsorokban can describe both statistical data and data structures in software. In statistics and data analysis, data are often treated as adatsorokban, for example a time series where values are ordered by time. In databases and programming, data may be stored as sequences of values within a column or as ordered lists of records; operations such as sorting, filtering and aggregation are applied to these adatsorokban.

Adatsorokban is closely related to, but distinct from, the specific case of idősor (time series), which is a particular type of adatsor where the ordering variable is time. See also: idősor, statisztika, adatbázis, adatszerkezet.