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The statistical treatment of count data is distinct from that of binary data, in which the observations can take only two values, usually represented by 0 and 1, and from ordinal data, which may also consist of integers but where the individual values fall on an arbitrary scale and only the relative ranking is important.

Count variables

An individual piece of count data is often termed a count variable. When such a variable is treated as a random variable,

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