Mode: get the mode of a dataset

In geostats: An Introduction to Statistics for Geoscientists

get the mode of a dataset

Description

Computes the most frequently occuring value in a sampling distribution.

Usage

Mode(x, categorical = FALSE)

Arguments

x	a vector
categorical	logical. If TRUE, returns the most frequently occuring value for categorical variables. If FALSE, returns the value corresponding to the maximimum kernel density for continuous variables

Value

a scalar

Examples

data(catchments,package='geostats')
m1 <- Mode(catchments$CaMg,categorical=TRUE)

m2 <- 1:50
for (i in m2){
   m2[i] <- Mode(rnorm(100),categorical=FALSE)
}
hist(m2)

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