Mode (statistics) - Unimodal Distributions

Unimodal Distributions

The difference between the mean and the mode in a unimodal distribution is bounded by 31/2. In symbols

where || is the absolute value. Incidentally this formula is also the Pearson mode or first skewness coefficient, and shows that this statistic for a unimodal distribution is bounded by 31/2.

The difference between the mode and the median has the same bound. In symbols

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