unimodal

Adjective

Meaning

having a single mode

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

monocle progressive ascending incremental monistic monist monospermous upward trend one-tier strictly increasing unimode positive slope always increasing monotonically increasing never decreasing

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Antonyms

bimodal

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Examples

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. Source: Internet

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". Source: Internet

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