Multimodal distribution
From Encyclopedia of Mathematics - Reading time: 1 min
multipeaked distribution
A probability distribution with several modes (cf. Mode) or, what is the same, with a density (cf. Density of a probability distribution) having several relative maxima corresponding to these modes. In contrast to unimodal distributions (cf. Unimodal distribution), multimodal distributions are comparatively rare (in practice) and, as a rule, arise as mixtures of probability distributions.
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