2006-11-12 07:37:29 · 12 answers · asked by Carmelita C 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
Take a set of say, 51 data points of varying values.
Arrange them from least to greatest.
The 26th data point is the mode.
This is different from the median, which is the sum of the data points divided by 51. The median will not necessarily be equal to any of the data points, while the mode, by definition, will. If the distribution is normal, aka a bell curve, the median and the mode will be very close. If the distribution is not a bell curve then the median and the mode may be quite different.
2006-11-12 08:04:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Meaning Of Mode In Statistics
2016-12-17 15:34:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As an illustration, take a room of people and measure all their heights
the mean is the average height
the median is the number exactly in the middle, there are the same number of people taller than this value than there are shorter than this value
the mode is the number that has the most people (ofen this is near the mean but less susceptable to being skewed by having a really tall person in the group.
The average might be 5'8 inches but if there are 5 people who are 5'7 and 4 who are 5'8 and 3 who are 5'6 then the mode is 5'7.
2006-11-12 07:45:32 · answer #3 · answered by Susan B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In statistics, mode means the most frequent value assumed by a random variable, or occurring in a sampling of a random variable. The term is applied both to probability distributions and to collections of experimental data.
Like the statistical mean and the median, the mode is a way of capturing important information about a random variable or a population in a single quantity. The mode is in general different from mean and median, and may be very different for strongly skewed distributions.
The mode is not necessarily unique, since the same maximum frequency may be attained at different values. The worst case is given by so-called uniform distributions, in which all values are equally likely.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_%28statistics%29
2006-11-12 07:39:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is the number with the highest frequency; that is the number with the highest occurrence. E.g in the string of numbers 1,1 2, 1 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 4, 3, 2, 2 4, 8, 1, 1, the number 1 appears most, so it is the mode.
2006-11-12 07:41:12 · answer #5 · answered by bobalan1234 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The value or item occurring most frequently in a series of observations or statistical data.
The number or range of numbers in a set that occurs the most frequently.
Ex. 1,2,3,4,3,5,3,2,3,6 The mode in this series is 3 because it is repeated the most.
2006-11-12 07:43:40 · answer #6 · answered by laugh2much4 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
mode is the one seen the most often, like 1 5 5 7, mode is five bc it's there twice. i always remembered this by the first two letters in mode are M O, Most Often.
2006-11-12 07:40:03 · answer #7 · answered by ~~kelly~~ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
3 types of averages: mean, median, mode
mean: add all the numbers together and divide that total by the # of numbers were in the list.
median: line all the numbers up from lowest to highest, median is the number in the middle of the list
mode: list all the numbers, mode is the number that occurs the most often
2006-11-12 07:47:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
its the value that most frequently occurs in a data set.
2006-11-12 07:45:17 · answer #9 · answered by telefantastical 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The value that is most frequent.
2006-11-12 07:40:24 · answer #10 · answered by Triathlete88 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋