In stats, what we have in Oregon is known as a "bimodal" distribution.    From Wordnik.com.  [BlueOregon] Reference

Spencer said, We are developing a bimodal economy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Education and Income, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

A bimodal distribution looks like a two-hump camel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gerald Bracey: How Mean is the Median?] Reference

The shape of the histogram is very sharply bimodal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Should NASA climate accountants adhere to GAAP? « Climate Audit] Reference

The reconstruction would be bimodal but only bimodal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Upside-Down Quadratic Proxy Response « Climate Audit] Reference

The 2005 bimodal appearance may have a physical basis.    From Wordnik.com.  [1933 « Climate Audit] Reference

So you almost have like a bimodal group at West Charlotte.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Arthur Griffin, May 7, 1999. Interview K-0168. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

A second category is a bimodal or multi-modal distribution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...] Reference

The effect of this inhibition is considered a bimodal phenomenon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monamine Oxidase Inhibitors] Reference

I think this explains part of the bimodal appearance of the data.    From Wordnik.com.  [1933 « Climate Audit] Reference

Gender is a bimodal distribution rather than a spectrum as such.    From Wordnik.com.  [Out of the Shadows] Reference

But the 2003 distribution is bimodal, the 1967 distribution is not.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Context and the Leader, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

Perhaps the distribution of fundamentalist intelligence is bimodal?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fundamentalist Stereotype: A Vindication, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

Leafless periods are briefer in bimodal equatorial rainfall regimes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 16] Reference

The annual rainfall averages 1300 mm and is bimodal in distribution.    From Wordnik.com.  [1. Green manure crops in irrigated and rainfed lowland rice-based cropping systems in south Asia.] Reference

Sometimes, depending on the contingencies, I get a bimodal distribution.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sad state of Intelligent Design: Or why it shuns 'peer review' - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Precipitation is bimodal, with peak rainfall occurring in spring and fall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)] Reference

Researchers discovered that text-messaging patterns were generally bimodal.    From Wordnik.com.  [How To Build A Data Startup] Reference

My view is that the cost of producing the diamond has a bimodal distribution.    From Wordnik.com.  [James Miller's Challenge Bet, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

Quah (1993, 1996) found that the world is moving towards a bimodal income distribution.    From Wordnik.com.  [About: Blinded by Science] Reference

The climate of the region is tropical with seasonal rain that falls in a bimodal pattern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets] Reference

Posted Aug 5, 2006 at 9:02 AM | Permalink | Reply 1. Is there a bimodal distribution two humps?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Positive and Negative Responders « Climate Audit] Reference

But this one — a very long series back to –2136 — has a unmistakable bimodal distribution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tasmanian Tree Rings « Climate Audit] Reference

If the distribution is, in fact, bimodal, that means that the median and mode are drifting apart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Escalation of Income, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

I showed a bimodal distribution of the step discontinuities and that the distribution was not.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quantifying the Hansen Y2K Error « Climate Audit] Reference

Natural sleep is bimodal - two stretches with a brief wakening in the middle - reports Circadiana.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mind Hacks: 2006-03-17 Spike activity] Reference

Rain may fall at any time of the year, except in the extreme east where the distribution is bimodal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Montane fynbos and renosterveld] Reference

Ditribution is indeed bimodal, with concentrations at the upper and lower ends of the WORDSUM scale.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fundamentalist Stereotype: A Vindication, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

Annual rainfall averages 700 to 1200 mm, often distributed in a bimodal pattern of three to six months.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 23] Reference

Each time I publish a book review in The New York Review of Books, I receive a bimodal set of responses.    From Wordnik.com.  ['The Fabric of the Cosmos'] Reference

If I am interpreting the graph correctly, it is not the "fundamentalist" who has a bimodal IQ distribution.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fundamentalist Stereotype: A Vindication, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

It's interesting that the 2003 column in the "Income Distribution Percent of Households" table appears bimodal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Escalation of Income, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

Thus, the fibring by functions of L1 and L2 is a normal bimodal logic characterized semantically as follows: let h1.    From Wordnik.com.  [Combining Logics] Reference

Which is pretty exciting, considering the bimodal distribution of outcomes in startups: you either fail or make a lot of money.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ramen Profitable] Reference

Rainfall distribution is bimodal in the forest, transitional and coastal zones, giving rise to a major and a minor growing season.    From Wordnik.com.  [Water profile of Ghana] Reference

The extreme west forms part of the winter-rainfall zone while in the extreme east, rainfall is bimodal with spring and autumn peaks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Montane fynbos and renosterveld] Reference

Where you see the mode referred to most often is when researchers report that they have "a bimodal distribution" (or even trimodal).    From Wordnik.com.  [Gerald Bracey: How Mean is the Median?] Reference

Not only bimodal, but multimodal (also called polymodal) logics, are standard in the literature: a typical case is the logic of knowledge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Combining Logics] Reference

Rainfall is bimodal, mainly in the form of thunder showers in summer and drizzle in winter and years may go by without good rains falling.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

×L2 is the bimodal logic over the mixed signature (endowed with two boxes) characterized by the class of Kripke structures of the form.    From Wordnik.com.  [Combining Logics] Reference