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title: "Fitting a distribution for a continuous variable"
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This section discusses techniques for fitting a distribution to observations for a continuous variable.

 

Before proceeding we suggest that you review the section on [checking for data quality](https://epixanalytics.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EA/pages/26575305/) first.

 

The methods we describe can be categorized into four groups, depending on your choice of a [parametric or non-parametric distribution](https://epixanalytics.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EA/pages/26575199/), and of a [first or second order distribution](https://epixanalytics.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EA/pages/26575199/):

 

[Fitting a continuous non-parametric first-order distribution to data](https://epixanalytics.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EA/pages/26575313/)

[Fitting a continuous non-parametric second-order distribution to data](https://epixanalytics.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EA/pages/26575314/)

[Fitting a continuous parametric first-order distribution to data](https://epixanalytics.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EA/pages/26575315/)

[Fitting a continuous parametric second-order distribution to data](https://epixanalytics.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EA/pages/26575316/)

 

 

 

 

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