Dennis Roberts wrote:
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major mode and the other as the minor mode.
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> this is an interesting point but, one we have to be careful about ... in
> the minitab pulse data set ... c6 is heights of 92 college students ...
IIRC, the difference between male and female mean height is almos
Dennis Roberts wrote:
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> At 02:04 PM 8/30/01 -0400, David C. Howell wrote:
> >Karl Wuensch asks an interesting question, though I would phrase it
> >somewhat more generally. "At what point does a bimodal distribution become
> >just a distribution with two peaks?"
I thought about this
"Paul R. Swank" wrote:
>...In the bimodal case, some refer to the higher "hump" as the
> major mode and the other as the minor mode.
Followed by Dorian, Ionian, Lydian, Hypodorian, Myxolydian... etc?
-Robert Dawson
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At 01:22 PM 8/30/01 -0500, Paul R. Swank wrote:
>A bomodal distibution is often thought to be a mixture of two other
>distibution with different modes. If the distributions have different sizes,
>then it is possible to have two or more "humps". I once read somewhere (and
>now can't remember where)
At 02:04 PM 8/30/01 -0400, David C. Howell wrote:
>Karl Wuensch asks an interesting question, though I would phrase it
>somewhat more generally. "At what point does a bimodal distribution become
>just a distribution with two peaks?"
or allow me to rephrase as ... when are there enough frequenc
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Subject: Bimodal distributions
Does a bimodal distribution necessarily have two modes? This might
seem like a silly question, but in my experience many folks apply the term
"bimodal"
Karl Wuensch asks an interesting question, though I would phrase it
somewhat more generally. "At what point does a bimodal distribution
become just a distribution with two peaks?" Except for a few
quite extreme situations, dealing with mixtures of distributions and the
like, it will rarely ever b
hi karl ... i think the answer is yes ... if you want it to have 2 modes
the mode is a problematical statistic ... since there is no good definition
for it and ... a few frequencies shifting around ... could radically change
the "mode" or "modes"
in minitab, there is no place where ANY mode is
Does a bimodal distribution necessarily have two modes? This might
seem like a silly question, but in my experience many folks apply the term
"bimodal" whenever the PDF has two peaks that are not very close to one
another, even if the one peak is much lower than the other. For example,
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