Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having or exhibiting two contrasting modes or forms.
- adjective Having two distinct statistical modes.
- adjective Designed for operation on either railroads or highways. Used of vehicles.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having two modes. In a table of frequencies the mode is the most frequent measure. If the curve of frequencies has two maxima it is called
bimodal .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Statistics) having or occurring with two
modes{9} ; having two maxima; -- of a curve or distribution.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having two
modes orforms - adjective mathematics, of a distribution Having two
modes (localmaxima )
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of a distribution; having or occurring with two modes
Etymologies
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Examples
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(The pertinent experiments were done with monkeys using rakes to manipulate distal objects; specific "bimodal" neurons that usually fire when the monkey's fingertips are touched eventually began to fire when the tip of the rake is touched, thus suggesting that the brain had "incorporated" the rake into its somatosensory "body schema.")
Ethical Technology IEET 2010
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In stats, what we have in Oregon is known as a "bimodal" distribution.
BlueOregon 2009
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In stats, what we have in Oregon is known as a "bimodal" distribution.
BlueOregon 2009
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It’s easy to guess that low-rent areas might give you the heebie-jeebies, but there might be some kind of bimodal distribution… I don’t know about you, but super-wealthy areas give me the creeps.
Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Heat map mashups: how do you feel about the rent? 2007
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Go deeper into your walk and experience a bimodal tidal movement, flowing first in one direction and then another.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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If the distribution is, in fact, bimodal, that means that the median and mode are drifting apart.
Escalation of Income, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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It's interesting that the 2003 column in the "Income Distribution Percent of Households" table appears bimodal.
Escalation of Income, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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If it is true, then we should observe a bimodal distribution of outcomes for reconstruction: many clear successes, many clear failures, and relatively few in-between examples.
Economics of Reconstruction, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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What the U.S. statistical averages in these areas both show and disguise is the bimodal distribution of the measured characteristics in the U.S. population.
Hours Worked In the U.S. vs. Europe, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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What the U.S. statistical averages in these areas both show and disguise is the bimodal distribution of the measured characteristics in the U.S. population.
Hours Worked In the U.S. vs. Europe, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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