Good things peak in pairs: A note on the bimodality coefficient

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue OCT, 2013, Pages

  Pfister, Roland ^a   Schwarz, Katharina A ^b   Janczyk, Markus ^a   Dale, Rick ^c   Freeman, Jonathan B ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

Bimodality; Distribution analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885391207     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00700     Document Type: Note

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