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
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) that this may be referred to as bimodal (or
multimo
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
