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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We consider repeated independent sampling from one member of an exponential family of probability distributions. The probability that the sample mean of n such observations falls into some set S n is, ...