Continuous Variable: can take on any value between two specified values. Obtained by measuring. Discrete Variable: not continuous variable (cannot take on any value between two specified values).

A continuous r. v. can only hypothetically assume any value on a continuum. When only an approximating discrete r. v. ("discretization") is observable, estimation procedures employing the hypothetical ...

Vol. 33, No. 12, HYDROLOGICAL AND METEOROLOGICAL ASPECTS OF RAINFALL MEASUREMENT AND PREDICTABILITY (December 1994), pp. 1543-1550 (8 pages) The paper considers a mixture of two and three lognormal ...