Mode Statistics Example 3
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Example 3
easyFind the mode of: Red, Blue, Green, Blue, Red, Blue, Green, Yellow.
Solution
- 1 Step 1: Count each colour: Red → 2, Blue → 3, Green → 2, Yellow → 1.
- 2 Step 2: Blue has the highest frequency (3).
Answer
The mode is Blue.
The mode works for categorical data where mean and median cannot be calculated. It tells us the most common category.
About Mode
The mode is the value that appears most often in a data set. A set can have no mode (all values appear equally), one mode (unimodal), or multiple modes (bimodal or multimodal). It is the only measure of center that works for categorical data.
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