1Is the following discrete or continuous number of brothers

1.Is the following discrete or continuous, number of brothers a person has?

2.Is the following a statistic or parameter? I asked 4 of the 12 people in our family, if this weekend would be a good time for the birthday party?

Solution

1) number of brothers is clearly discrete as it only takes point values (integers) rather than a continous range.

2) This is a statistic because it is description of a sample