Business Mathematics and Basic Statistics · Ch 4 — Measures of Central Tendency
Mode — Discrete Data
Mode — Discrete Data
The mode of a data set is the value that occurs most often — the single "most popular" observation. Unlike the mean, the mode does not involve any addition or division at all; for a discrete frequency distribution it is found purely by observation: scan the frequency column, find the largest frequency, and read off the value of standing against it.
Mode
The mode of a discrete frequency distribution is the value of against which the frequency is the greatest. It is identified directly by inspection of the frequency table — no computation is required.
A data set can have exactly one mode (unimodal), more than one value tied for the highest frequency (bimodal or multimodal), or, if every value occurs equally often, no meaningful mode at all. At this syllabus's scope, worked examples are restricted to the straightforward unimodal case. …
The value of a variable that occurs with the greatest frequency in a data set; for discrete data it is found directly by inspecting the frequenc …