modus: Mode (modus)

In nachti/STATtools: Tools of Statistics Austria (STAT)

Description

Calculate the most frequent value (modus) of a vector. Missing values (NA) are ignored.

Usage

modus(x)

Arguments

x	a vector containing the values whose modus is to be computed.

Value

A single value containing the most frequent value (modus) of x. For bi- or multimodal distributions with equal peaks, the first one is returned (see examples).

Author(s)

Gerhard Nachtmann [e-mail]

See Also

median, mean

Examples

x <- round(rnorm(1000), 1)
modus(x)
y <- sample(letters, 100, replace = TRUE)
modus(y)
modus(c(1, 1, 2, 2))
modus(c("b", "b", "a", "a"))

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