Continuous data are always essentially numeric. It sometimes makes sense to treat discrete data as continuous and the other way around: For example, something like height is continuous, …

May 13, 2017 · If the sample space is countable, your variable is discrete. This means, for example, that even the difference of the square roots of two Poisson variables is discrete, …

Jul 4, 2015 · I'm getting wrapped around data types and I need some help: If you look at the picture above (taken from here), it has the data types like this: Quantitative (Discrete, …

Aug 28, 2018 · Difference between continuous and non-continuous data . [duplicate] Ask Question Asked 7 years, 2 months ago Modified 7 years, 2 months ago

Nov 7, 2017 · A consequence of the difference between these data types is that calculating descriptive statistics like the mean are a doubtful practice for ordinal data (although it's often …

Jun 9, 2020 · I have two datasets: one consists of expected values and the second includes observed values. I want to test the difference between these two datasets. This is dataset A …

Jul 14, 2015 · If we want to visibly see the distribution of a continuous data, which one among histogram and pdf should be used? What are the differences, not formula wise, between …

Aug 4, 2022 · I am measuring a discrete variable n_pushups and then enriching that data to create a new set of variables that appear to be continuous. I have a few questions: Is my …

I would like to find the correlation between a continuous (dependent variable) and a categorical (nominal: gender, independent variable) variable. Continuous data is not normally distributed. …

May 17, 2025 · Yes, but statisticians can play loose with that difference. Bottom line; your date/time data is continuous, regardless of the resolution (days or seconds, or years or …