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Timings are described as fully by the time series of the intervals between events {\u2026, T<jats:sub>i-1<\/jats:sub>, T<jats:sub>i<\/jats:sub>, T<jats:sub>i+1<\/jats:sub>, \u2026}; this portrayal is the most common one in Dynamics.<\/jats:p><jats:p>This communication's goal is to call attention to the peculiarities of Point Process Systems most relevant to dynamic approaches. Previously, explicit, deliberate statements to that effect have been bypassed because approaches, though justified, were extensions from Continuous Systems. The Point Process notion essential for this goal is that the i th event at t<jats:sub>i<\/jats:sub>exclusively reflects the most recent finite epoch and the timing of the finite number of events within it. This is because real world events always have transitory consequences and cannot be repeated at intervals shorter than some dead time. Those finite quantities, though varying from event to event, have maxima (or least upper bounds), S for the most recent epochs and D for the numbers of events. Accordingly, the most involved will be spans from t<jats:sub>i<\/jats:sub>-S to t<jats:sub>i<\/jats:sub>and events i-D; i-D+1: S is called \"integration period\" and the D events \"influential\". Critical is the timing of the influential events plus the i th , described by the D intervals T<jats:sub>i-D+1<\/jats:sub>, \u2026, T<jats:sub>i-1<\/jats:sub>and T<jats:sub>i<\/jats:sub>also called \"influential\". Therefore, it makes sense to assign to a Point Process the D-dimension state space whose coordinates are the influential intervals. The i th event is represented by point {T<jats:sub>i-D+1<\/jats:sub>, \u2026, T<jats:sub>i-1<\/jats:sub>, T<jats:sub>i<\/jats:sub>} whose location implies the timing of events i-D, i-D+1, \u2026, i-1 and i. Successive point positions compose a discrete trajectory with countable points. Point Process trajectories have exhibited the same kinds of behaviors and attractors as continuous cases.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Point Process data are analyzed along the same steps (a\u2013d) prescribed for continuous data but peculiarities affect the first two. Data consist, not of several variables, but of the single variable T<jats:sub>i<\/jats:sub>. Hence, in step (a) where a representative variable is selected, T<jats:sub>i<\/jats:sub>is the only choice. In (b) a discrete trajectory is extracted, with Point Processes simply that of the original data T<jats:sub>i<\/jats:sub>: points stagger along it according to the system's dynamics, and need not be periodic or uniformly distributed. With Continuous Systems, discrete trajectories arise from sampling at investigator-chosen invariant time-lags; points stagger periodically and uniformly. 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