possibilities for example a person's weight so someone could be 180 pounds or they could be 180 point 10 pounds or 180 point 1 1 0 pounds now the number of possibilities for weight are limitless and this is exactly what a continuous variable is so regression is a predictive analysis used to predict continuous variables here you don't have to label data in two different classes instead you have to predict a final outcome like let's say that you want to predict the price of a stock over a period for such problems you can make use of