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Data & Analytics · Foundational

Discrete Data

Quantitative data that take countable values, usually integers, such as number of orders or defects.

Definition

Discrete counts are modeled with distributions such as Poisson or binomial and are often shown in bar charts.

Example

Number of support tickets per day.

Exam tip

You can't have 2.5 customers: that's discrete data.

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