measures of central tendency(how to find Mode)

How to Find the Mode or Modal Value

 

Mode is always choose the number that always appear most

Finding the Mode

To find the mode,  first we need to 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.

the number that most often is 23

Another Example: {19, 8, 29, 35, 19, 28, 15}

Arrange them in order: {8, 15, 19, 19, 28, 29, 35}
19 appears twice, all the rest appear only once, so 19 is the mode.

How to remember? Think "mode is most"

More Than One Mode

We can have more than one mode.

Example: {1, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 6, 6, 6, 9}

3 appears three times, as does 6.
So there are two modes: at 3 and 6

this is the video tutorial for more example.