Bimodality and the Nature of Depression
- 1 April 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 138 (4) , 336-339
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.138.4.336
Abstract
Summary: 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.This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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