"Continuous" means there's no smallest piece. If you pick two amounts, then
no matter how close together they are, there's always an amount between
them. Amounts of time, water, and temperature are continuous.
"Discrete" means there is a smallest piece. If you pick two amounts and they're
close enough together, there's no amount between them. Amounts of beans, cars,
and chickens are discrete.
Some manufacturing is discrete, some continuous.
ocean depth is a continuous or discrete variable?
continuous discrete
Continuous
Continuous
Continuous.
Discrete.
discrete
discrete
discrete
It is discrete even though time itself is continuous.
continuous because discrete data involve a count of items