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Does a symmetric distribution need to be unimodal?
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A symmetric distribution does not need to be unimodal (having only one mode or one value that occurs most frequently). It can be bi-modal (having two values that have the highest frequencies) or multi-modal (having multiple or more than two values that have the highest frequencies).
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