The People's Republic of China has an area of about 9,600,000 km2 (3,700,000 sq mi). The exact land area is sometimes challenged by border disputes, most notably about Taiwan, Aksai Chin, the Trans-Karakoram Tract, and South Tibet.
A continuous variable is a specific kind a quantitative variable used in statistics to describe data that is measurable in some way. If your data deals with measuring a height, weight, or time, then you have a continuous variable. Let's further define a couple of the terms used in our definition. A variable in statistics is not quite the same as a variable in algebra. In statistics, a variable is something that gives us data.
Continuous Variables. The variable color of M&M used in this example is a discrete variable, and its distribution is also called discrete. Let us now extend the concept of a distribution to continuous variables. The data shown in Table 2 are the times it took one of us (DL) to move the cursor over a small target in a series of 20 trials.