Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Measure of Central Tendency Part IV

The Mode

To find the mode, or modal value, first put the numbers in order, then count how many of each number. A number that appears most often is the mode.


Example:

3, 7, 5, 13, 20, 23, 39, 23, 40, 23, 14, 12, 56, 23, 29
In order these numbers are:
3, 5, 7, 12, 13, 14, 20, 23, 23, 23, 23, 29, 39, 40, 56
This makes it easy to see which numbers appear most often.
In this case the mode is 23.

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