ARIMA is a statistical model used to forecast future values in a time series by examining patterns in past observations. It stands for autoregressive integrated moving average. The ARIMA model incorporates autoregressive (AR) terms to model dependence on past values, differences (I) to make the data stationary, and moving average (MA) terms to model lagged forecast errors. The ARIMA(p,d,q) parameters include p for AR order, d for differencing, and q for MA order. ARIMA is useful when data exhibits trends or seasonality and can be applied after differencing to make the time series stationary.