Continuous variables are variables whose value between two values is infinite. They can be numerical, time or date. Some examples are temperature and length.
In general, quantities such as pressure, height, mass, weight, density, volume, temperature, and distance are examples of continuous random variables.
The weight of a fire fighter would be an example of a continuous variable; since a fire fighter's weight could take on any value between 150 and 250 pounds. Suppose we flip a coin and count the number of heads. The number of heads could be any integer value between 0 and plus infinity.
Continuous variables are variables that can take on any value within a range. Continuous variables are also considered metric or quantitative variables, where the variable can have an infinite number or value between two given points.
Examples of continuous data:The amount of time required to complete a project.The height of children.The amount of time it takes to sell shoes.The amount of rain, in inches, that falls in a storm.The square footage of a two-bedroom house.The weight of a truck.The speed of cars.Time to wake up.
Continuous data is data that can take any value. Height, weight, temperature and length are all examples of continuous data. Some continuous data will change over time; the weight of a baby in its first year or the temperature in a room throughout the day.
A continuous variable is defined as a variable which can take an uncountable set of values or infinite set of values. For instance, if a variable over a non-empty range of the real numbers is continuous, then it can take on any value in that range.
Height is not an example of a continuous variable.
Continuous variables can take on almost any numeric value and can be meaningfully divided into smaller increments, including fractional and decimal values. You often measure a continuous variable on a scale. For example, when you measure height, weight, and temperature, you have continuous data.
a variable that may in theory have an infinite number of possible values. For example, time is a continuous variable because accurate instruments will enable it to be measured to any subdivision of a unit (e.g., 1.76 seconds).
Date is a variable that can be both continuous and discrete.