1. Education  Continuous in Probability and Statistics
Information in probability and statistics can be classified in
different ways. The data could be considered in light of what
level of measurement it falls in. But determining the level of
measurement is not the only way to categorize data. A different
way to classify a data set is to determine whether it is
continuous or discrete.  Discrete objects in mathematics are
those things that can be separated out and counted. It helps to
think of a discrete set as a series of dots starting at one
point and going to another. There are certain places where there
is blank space. Now, if we were to “connect the dots” we would
have a series of line segments with no gaps. This connecting of
the dots has provided us with an example of something that is
continuous.  Counting and the Discrete  One of the first things
that we learn in mathematics is how to count. The set of numbers
that we use is called the set of natural numbers: {0, 1, 2, 3,
4, . . . }. We could repres