Source: Bimodal Height Distribution; Creative Commons: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BimodalAnts.png Other graphs created by the author
(0:00-0:52) Unimodal Distributions
(0:53-1:37) Bimodal Distributions
(1:38-2:36) Distributions that appear bimodal may be graphing two unimodal distributions on the same set of axes
(2:37-2:58) Multimodal distributions
Terms to Know
A distribution where one value or bin contains more data than the other values or bins.
A distribution where there are two distinct values or bins that contain more data than the others, usually separated by a gap.
A distribution where there are many values or bins that contain more data than other nearby bins, usually separated by gaps.
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