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Defining discrete bins from a continuous measure

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Defining discrete bins from a continuous measure

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- [Instructor] When you think of a histogram, you probably think of a chart that summarizes discrete values. For example, the number of customers at hotel in a given day. You can also create histograms from continuous values such as the average daily room rate for a hotel. But it does take a little more doing. I will show you how to define the discrete bins from a continuous measure in this movie. My sample file is the Continuous workbook, and you can find it in the Chapter 10 folder of your Exercise Files collection. First a quick review of discrete values versus continuous values. Discrete values, and this is the idea behind what's called discrete mathematics, is that it deals with counting. In other words, it deals with individual things that could be counted individually. So you typically deal with whole numbers, one, two, three, four, five, and so on. A continuous value, on the other hand, has a decimal element to it. Now there is a bit of a gray area here. If you allow halves…

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