multimodal

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This is especially true if you have multimodal distributions (such as the income datasets in the article).

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Having or employing multiple modes.

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adjective

Having or employing multiple modes.

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Core meanings and parts of speech for multimodal.

adjective

Having or employing multiple modes.

Example sentences

This is especially true if you have multimodal distributions (such as the income datasets in the article).

So the end result is to naturally divide into multimodal distributions: Rich get richer, poor get poorer.

It could be the case that programming talent is bi-modal or multimodal, but each mode is itself a normal distribution.

This consensus algorithm looks pretty good, but it seems it could get into trouble in cases where the distribution of outcomes is multimodal.

Any distribution can look multimodal if you under sample.

On further thought this probably won't work very well: the histogram of colour distances will be multimodal, with one peak for each color in the image (and with the peak corresponding to the white background being far taller than the others).

Quote examples

Brereton "A participatory design agenda for ubiquitous computing and multimodal interaction: a case study of dental practice", In Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference, Trento, Italy, August 2006.

Perhaps one solution would be to simply declare events with strongly multimodal properties in the distribution of reported outcomes as invalid, and thus avoid the somewhat arbitrary decision where one mode would be declared the "consensus" by the algorithm, costing reputation to those who reported the other mode as the outcome.