Skip to content

Applied Mathematics · Ch 10 — Descriptive Statistics

Mode

10.5.3

Mode

The mode is the value that appears most frequently in a data set — the observation with the highest count. Unlike the mean or median, the mode is not affected by extreme values, making it especially useful for categorical or discrete data where we want to know the most common item. For grouped data, we locate the modal class (the class interval with the highest frequency) and then use a formula to estimate the exact mode within that interval. This measure …