Discrete Maths - OCR - D1 - Part 1 - Intro.

In Statistics GCSE we're first introduced to two types of Data.

Continuous and Discrete.

Continuous Data - takes any value in a numerical range.
e.g. measurements of height, weight and time.

Discrete Data - can ONLY take values which are strictly separated from each other.
e.g.  number of children in a family, the numbers ` of letters in a word.

It can only take WHOLE number values.

Discrete Data is actually a fairly new topic, as…