Stats
Testing for bimodality (May 3, 2005).
I have talked about this topic before and it is a rather tricky thing. A recent discussion
of tests of bimodality on edstat-l, though, yielded a few promising leads relating to the Dip
test of
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Hartigan JA & Hartigan PM. "The Dip Test of Unimodality", The Annals of Statistics,
v13(1):70-84, 1985.
Some links to software to run the Dip test are shown below.
and there is a pdf version of another paper that discusses the Dip test:
07/08/2008. Category:
Statistical theory
