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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.
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The '''Mode''' is a summary of data that reports the value that occurs most frequently in a dataset.
  
So with the following numbers:
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For the following data:
  
:1,3,3,3,5,7,9,19
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:1, 3, 3, 3, 3, 5, 7, 9, 19
  
The Mode is 3
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The mode is "3" because "3" occurs 4 times and no other value occurs 4 or more times.
  
==See Also==
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The mode can be used to describe [[categorical data]] as well.
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For the following categorical data:
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:Blue, Blue, Blue, Green, Green, Yellow, Orange
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The mode would be "Blue"
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==See also==
  
 
*[[Median]]
 
*[[Median]]

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"

See also