unimodality
Sign in to saveIn mathematics, unimodality means possessing a unique mode. More generally, unimodality means there is only a single highest value, somehow defined, of some mathematical object.
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- Unimodal probability distribution
- Other definitions
- Uses and results
- Inequalities
- Gauss's inequality
- Vysochanskiï–Petunin inequality
- Mode, median and mean
- Skewness and kurtosis
- Unimodal function
- Other extensions
- See also
- References
In mathematics, unimodality means possessing a unique mode. More generally, unimodality means there is only a single highest value, somehow defined, of some mathematical object.
== Unimodal probability distribution == thumb|Figure 1. Probability density function of normal distributions, an example of unimodal distribution. thumb|Figure 2. A simple bimodal distribution. thumb|Figure 3. A bimodal distribution. Note that only the largest peak would correspond to a mode in the strict sense of the definition of mode
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