unimodal
Adjective
Meaning
having a single mode
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monocle
progressive
ascending
incremental
monistic
monist
monospermous
strictly increasing
upward trend
positive monotone
absolute monotone
always increasing
monotonically increasing
never decreasing
non-negative slope
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Search for the maximum of a function In 1953, American statistician Jack Kiefer devised Fibonacci search which can be used to find the maximum of a unimodal function and has many other applications in computer science.
Relationships between the mean, median and mode main For unimodal distributions the following bounds are known and are sharp: Johnson NL, Rogers CA (1951) "The moment problem for unimodal distributions".