Continuous vs. Discrete data?

Question

Whats the difference and can you give an example for each?

Answer 1

Discrete data contains distinct values, whereas continuous data can assume any value within a range.



For example, the number of phone calls a company receives would be discrete data. You can only have distinct, whole number values. You can't have, for example, 4.375 calls. There is either a phone call or there isn't; there aren't fractions of calls.



Continuous data would be like temperatures, lengths, and so on. Usually, anything you have to use a measuring device for is continuous data. Temperatures, lengths, et cetera can all fall anywhere on a range; they don't have to have distinct values.

Answer 2

Discrete Vs Continuous

Answer 3

Continuous: Data you can't put into categories, data with no limits. Example - Measurements, time.



Discrete: Data you can categorise, data with limits. Example - Shoe sizes, animals.



Hope I helped. I can't think of a better way to describe it.

Answer 4

Continuous data would be something that can take absolutely any value in a range of real numbers. For example, voltage in a circuit. In a home AC circuit, the voltage varies in a continuous sine wave at 60Hz, and can be any instantaneous value between -110V and +110V... Could be +61.3178V, then +61.3177824V...



Discrete data is "chunked", it can only have a certain set of values, often integers. For example, the number of electrons in an atom, or the number of petals on a flower.

Answer 5

I think continuous data what can reserch by a person.And Discrete data can't do this action.

Answer 6

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The diurnal temperature range value IS a discrete variable b/c it's one data point per day (delta between daily HIGH and LOW temperatures). Bar graphs usually depict frequencies. At a minimuim...I might show the daily diurnal range values as unconnected points on a chart. Better still would be a bar covering the range between HIGH and LOW. The bar would show the HIGH...LOW...and diurnal range!

Answer 7

Continuos is a set of number

(0, 9)



Discrete is a specific number

9, 10, 11

Answer 8

The most simple way to describe that is:



Continuous= numbers that can have decimals (ie. height, time, any measurement.

Discrete= whole numbers, no decimals (ie. how many phone calls made, as opposed to the length of the call *which is continuous*)

Answer 9

Plz tell me some examples of discrete data.......quickly. ....

Answer 10

what about calender year? is't discrete or continuous???? i need quick answer pls