Statistics: Mode
Mode Welcome back friends, This is the second part of our statistics series. In First part, we have look all the three methods to find mean: Direct Method, Assumed Mean Method & Step Deviation Method. In this second part, we are going to study what is mode & how to calculate it in an grouped data. What is Mode? According to Wikipedia, "The mode of a set of data values is the value that appears most often in the data set". For Ex, If we have a data set say S, such that S = {1,2,2,2,2,3,3,4,4,4,5,9,2,4} Now in order to find the mode, we will simply count the occurrences of each element. The element having highest frequency will be our mode. Element Frequency 1 1 2 5 3 2 4 4 5 1 9 1 Now from the table, it is clear that 2 occurs most often. Therefore, the mode of the data is 2. In the above case, the data is not so complex &am