Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Continuous Variable

Variable is just like a box where we can store the property of an object. The property of an object may be a value or a characteristic, variable takes more than one value. For example, “marks” of a student in an exam is a variable. Eye color of individuals is a variable which is measured on nominal scale. Height of individuals is also a variable which is measured on ratio scale. Variables are classified into two categories those are Continuous Variable and Discrete Variable.

Continuous Variable Definition: A variable is said to be continuous variable if takes each and every value in between two values (or limits). Continuous variable Example is given below.

“Rain fall in a day” is a continuous variable it can take any value in between 0 and infinity.
“Time to complete this answer” is a continuous variable it can take any value between 0 and infinity.
“Water level in a tank” is a continuous variable it can take any value between 0 and maximum capacity of tank.



Discrete Variable Definition: A variable is said to be discrete variable if it can takes countable number of values (it may be finite or infinite). Discrete variable Examples are given below.

“Number of mistakes” in a paper is a discrete variable it can take any value among 0,1,2,3…
“Number of days” to complete a project is a discrete variable it can take any value among 1, 2, 3, 4…
“Number of stars” in the sky is a discrete variable it can take any value among
1, 2, 3, 4…
“Number of heads” in ‘n’ trails of coin tossing is discrete variable it can take any value among 0, 1, 2, 3..., n.

Definition of Continuous Variable is explained above and it tells that continuous variable is a variable which cannot measure exactly its range is always an interval. For example, Arrival time of customers into the mall is a continuous variable. What is Random Variable? Before going to answer this question we have to know about the Random Experiment. Random Experiment is an Experiment which is conducted or repeated under homogeneous and identical conditions and the results of the experiment cannot be predicted and it must be one of the outcome from set of all possible outcomes. Set of all possible outcomes is called as Sample Space. Now it’s time to introduce Random Variable. A Random Variable is a variable which stores the results of the random experiment. Here the random variable is classified into two categories which are Continuous Random Variable and Discrete Random Variable. Continuous Random Variable is a random variable whose range is an interval.

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