Suggested answer to exercise: VAS stress from the 2005 questionnaire, 4

Question 4: How would you describe the shape of the distribution and why?

Suggested answer

The distribution appears to be bimodal.

It is also negatively skew: the tail on the left is clearly longer than the tail on the right, which is very short.

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