Talk:Bimodal distribution
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I added nl:Bimodale distributie for the Dutch version to the article, but it doesn't show up? That's strange...
- It's there. It worked. Nederlands is listed in the sidebar. Deco 19:49, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
What happens when we have two local maxima, but these maxima are different? For example, the experiment "roll a d6, if d6 = 1, then sample from a N(100,1), else sample from a N(0,1)". I would call this bimodal, even though the peak near x = 100 is 1/5 higher than the peak near x = 0. Albmont 10:09, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
- Yes, I think it is misleading that Figure 1 shows the two peaks as being equal. I made it clear in the text at least that we are only talking about local maxima. I also linked to mode (statistics) and edited that page to note that local as well as global maxima of a pdf are commonly referred to as modes. Eclecticos 03:15, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
The article says (more or less) that X = αY + (1 − α)Z is usually a bimodal distribution. This is not precise: the correct way is that the variable whose density is fX = αfY + (1 − α)fZ is usually bimodal. Albmont 14:28, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
