mode
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4.8
- noun
- /moʊd/
- Specialized
:
moda
- For the cultural consistency measures, means, standard deviations, ranges, and modes were computed.
- mean and mode
- median and mode
- frequencies indicate a mode
But another pattern that you must see is that it has a single mode.
- But another pattern that you must see is that it has a single mode.
Examples
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Minimum age was 18 years and maximum age, 30 years; both median age and mode were 21 years.
Academic text (2007) -
About 85% of the shrimp were 36-42 count and smaller, and the mode was 51-60.
Academic text (1997) -
The median was 4 years, and the mode was 1 year.
Academic text (2002) -
The median was 26, and the mode was 27.
Academic text (2013) -
The mode was zero; however, it indicated that clear days were the most frequent sky cover.
Academic text (2011) -
The median of this section was 78.5, and there was no mode as each score only occurred once.
Academic text (2012) -
For this group, the mode number of sessions that lapsed before discussing disclosure was three.
Academic text (2007) -
Hospital in-degree ranged from 0 to 6 (median = 2; mode = 1; 7 hospitals).
Academic text (2011) -
Such descriptive analysis includes the mean, median, mode, variance, standard deviation, percentages, etc.
Academic text (1993) -
In the dataset of test scores, the mode was found to be 85, as it occurred more frequently than any other score.
Synonyms
The number or item that appears most often in a set of data
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
A pattern of musical notes used in old church music that gives a melody its own sound
- Archaic
A fast digital way to send small pieces of data that are the same size, such as voice and video
- Specialized
A pattern of eight notes that gives a piece of Western music its typical sound
- Specialized
A musical scale with a fixed pattern of notes used in ancient Greek music
- Specialized
A musical scale used in old church singing that gives chants a special sound
Surface Forms
Etymology
A helpful way to remember the statistical mode is to think of 'fashion' — the most popular thing; the word mode comes from Latin modus and from French for 'fashion' or 'way'. So the statistical mode is simply the value that appears most often.