Continuous Variable/Examples/Age of a Person

Example of Continuous Variable

The age $A$ of a given person can take any of the values in the set $\R_{\ge 0} = \set {x \in \R: x \ge 0}$.

Thus $A$ is a continuous variable.

Sources

• 1972: Murray R. Spiegel and R.W. Boxer: Theory and Problems of Statistics (SI ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Chapter $1$: Discrete and Continuous Variables: Example 2.