Answer to Question #94255 in Statistics and Probability for Juliet Beglaryan

Question

4. A histogram with a long right-hand tail is said to be _________________________________.
A histogram with a long left-hand tail is said to be __________________________________.
A peak, or high point, of a histogram is referred to as a mode.
A histogram is ______________ if it has only one mode, and ___________________________ if it has two clearly distinct modes.

Answer 1

A histogram with a long right-hand tail is said to be right-skewed.

A histogram with a long left-hand tail is said to be left-skewed..

A peak, or high point, of a histogram is referred to as a mode.

A histogram is unimodal if it has only one mode, and bimodal if it has two clearly distinct modes.

Sources:

https://www.statisticshowto.datasciencecentral.com/probability-and-statistics/skewed-distribution/

https://www.statisticshowto.datasciencecentral.com/what-is-a-bimodal-distribution/