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Central Tendency in a Bimodal Distribution
In a bimodal distribution, the measures of central tendency do not align at a single point. The mean and the median will typically fall somewhere in the middle between the two peaks, whereas the mode will be located exclusively at the tallest peak of the distribution.
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