Difference between revisions of "Mode"

Latest revision as of 02:47, September 7, 2017

The Mode is a summary of data that reports the value that occurs most frequently in a dataset.

For the following data:

1, 3, 3, 3, 3, 5, 7, 9, 19

The mode is "3" because "3" occurs 4 times and no other value occurs 4 or more times.

The mode can be used to describe categorical data as well.

For the following categorical data:

Blue, Blue, Blue, Green, Green, Yellow, Orange

The mode would be "Blue"

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-The '''Mode''' is a mathematical term that looks for a specific statistical occurrence, namely the value that occurs mostly frequently in a series.
+The '''Mode''' is a summary of data that reports the value that occurs most frequently in a dataset.
-So with the following numbers:
+For the following data:
-:1,3,3,3,5,7,9,19
+:1, 3, 3, 3, 3, 5, 7, 9, 19
-The Mode is 3
+The mode is "3" because "3" occurs 4 times and no other value occurs 4 or more times.
-==See Also==
+The mode can be used to describe [[categorical data]] as well.
-[[Median]]
+For the following categorical data:
-[[Category:Statistics]]
+:Blue, Blue, Blue, Green, Green, Yellow, Orange
+The mode would be "Blue"
+==See also==
+*[[Median]]
+*[[Mean]]
+[[Category:Probability and Statistics]]