---
title: TemporalEstimator
framework: createmlcomponents
role: symbol
role_heading: Protocol
path: createmlcomponents/temporalestimator
---

# TemporalEstimator

An estimator that creates a transformer by fitting to a sequence of temporal features.

## Declaration

```swift
protocol TemporalEstimator<Transformer>
```

## Topics

### Reading and writing

- [read(from:)](createmlcomponents/temporalestimator/read(from:).md)
- [write(_:to:overwrite:)](createmlcomponents/temporalestimator/write(_:to:overwrite:).md)

### Appending

- [appending(_:)](createmlcomponents/temporalestimator/appending(_:).md)

### Adapting and fitting

- [adaptedAsSupervised(annotationType:)](createmlcomponents/temporalestimator/adaptedassupervised(annotationtype:).md)
- [fitted(to:)](createmlcomponents/temporalestimator/fitted(to:).md)
- [fitted(to:eventHandler:)](createmlcomponents/temporalestimator/fitted(to:eventhandler:).md)
- [Transformer](createmlcomponents/temporalestimator/transformer.md)

### Encoding and decoding

- [encode(_:to:)](createmlcomponents/temporalestimator/encode(_:to:).md)
- [decode(from:)](createmlcomponents/temporalestimator/decode(from:).md)

## Relationships

### Inherited By

- [UpdatableTemporalEstimator](createmlcomponents/updatabletemporalestimator.md)

### Conforming Types

- [EstimatorToTemporalAdaptor](createmlcomponents/estimatortotemporaladaptor.md)
- [PreprocessingTemporalEstimator](createmlcomponents/preprocessingtemporalestimator.md)
- [PreprocessingUpdatableTemporalEstimator](createmlcomponents/preprocessingupdatabletemporalestimator.md)
- [TemporalTransformerToEstimatorAdaptor](createmlcomponents/temporaltransformertoestimatoradaptor.md)
- [TemporalTransformerToUpdatableEstimatorAdaptor](createmlcomponents/temporaltransformertoupdatableestimatoradaptor.md)
- [UpdatableEstimatorToTemporalAdaptor](createmlcomponents/updatableestimatortotemporaladaptor.md)

## See Also

### Protocols

- [Transformer](createmlcomponents/transformer.md)
- [TemporalTransformer](createmlcomponents/temporaltransformer.md)
- [RandomTransformer](createmlcomponents/randomtransformer.md)
- [Estimator](createmlcomponents/estimator.md)
- [SupervisedEstimator](createmlcomponents/supervisedestimator.md)
- [SupervisedTemporalEstimator](createmlcomponents/supervisedtemporalestimator.md)
- [UpdatableEstimator](createmlcomponents/updatableestimator.md)
- [UpdatableSupervisedEstimator](createmlcomponents/updatablesupervisedestimator.md)
- [UpdatableSupervisedTemporalEstimator](createmlcomponents/updatablesupervisedtemporalestimator.md)
- [UpdatableSupervisedTabularEstimator](createmlcomponents/updatablesupervisedtabularestimator.md)
- [UpdatableTemporalEstimator](createmlcomponents/updatabletemporalestimator.md)
- [UpdatableTabularEstimator](createmlcomponents/updatabletabularestimator.md)