Bimodality and the nature of depression.
Arguments concerning the nature of depressive disorders have involved as a central issue the question of the bimodality or otherwise of the distribution of some variable expressing variation in symptomatology. The implications of a particular type of frequency distribution along this dimension, whether uni- or bi-modal, have been misunderstood by a number of workers, and an attempt is made to clarify the situation.
D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000145:classification*; D006801:Humans; D013223:Statistics as Topic