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Unimodality of Probability Measures 87 as the principal part ofLabor omnia vincit improbus. VIRGIL, Georgica I, 144 145. In the first part of his Theoria combinationis observationum erroribus min imis obnoxiae, published in 1821, Carl Friedrich Gauss [Gau80, p. 10] deduces a Chebyshev type inequality for a probability density function, when it only has the property that its value always decreases, or at least does l not increase, if the absolute value of x increases . One may therefore conjecture that Gauss is