Flickr via Google Images Standard deviation is a concept that's thrown around frequently in finance. So what is it? When working with a quantitative data set, one of the first things we want to know ...

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).

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