中文摘要：

随着社会的进步，统计数据由过去的年度数据变为如今的季度、月度和日度数据，有些以实时交易为基础的超高频金融数据达到了按秒为间隔的频率，这些数据被称为季节时间序列。季节时间序列研究已经成为近十年来经济计量学和统计学中的热点，Joumal of Econometrics（1993，volume 55）就此问题进行了专题讨论。本文按照历史发展顺序对季节性时间序列理论进行了系统地介绍，并对这一领域的前沿热点问题进行了评述和展望。

英文摘要：

With the development of society, economic time series are usually released on a quarterly ,monthly or daily frequency, some financial market data are available on a transaction basis and hence are released on a secondly frequency. They are called seasonal time series. In the past decade, the research of seasonal time series is of high interest to economist and statistics. This subject is especially discussed in Journal of Econometrics（1993,volume 55）. This article introduced the seasonal time series theory systemically and stated the frontier in this field.