The mode is one of the parts of central tendency in statistics that is important for a set of data when the observer needs the occurrence of the most frequently data. It means if in a set of data as {2, 3, 4, 4, 5, 8} is given, then Mode of this data will be 4.
It may happen that in a set of data there are more than a single mode. If there are two modes, then that set is known as bimodal and the data set consisting with more than two modes known as multimodal.
Now, complications may occur for a student when the set is provided as the grouped frequency data. In that condition the formula used as–
Here, for a modal class
L = Lower limit
h= Width
f1= modal class frequency
f2= modal class Succeeding
f0 = Frequency value preceding
In case of frequency distribution in a symmetrical order in the modal class Mode= Mean = Median
The condition gets changed in case of moderately skewed distribution as
Mean – Mode = 3 (Mean – Median)
One more condition can be assumed in case
2f1 –f0 –f2 =0, in that case
Now, a student can easily understand the ways after going through the various problems of Mode for different data sets.
Links of Previous Main Topic:-
- Introduction to statistics
- Knowledge of central tendency or location
- Know about arithmetic mean
- Explanation of geometric mean
- The proper explanation of harmonic mean
- Acquire the suitable knowledge of median
Links of Next Statistics Topics:-
- Definition of dispersion
- Moments
- Bivariate distribution
- Theorem of total probability addition theorem
- Random variable
- Binomial distribution
- What is sampling
- Estimation
- Statistical hypothesis and related terms
- Analysis of variance introduction
- Definition of stochastic process
- Introduction operations research
- Introduction and mathematical formulation in transportation problems
- Introduction and mathematical formulation
- Queuing theory introduction
- Inventory control introduction
- Simulation introduction
- Time calculations in network
- Introduction of game theory
