Measures of central tendency - mode
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 14:56:42 -0800
Spencer Graves <spencer.graves at pdf.com> wrote:
Evidently, I didn't read your question carefully enough. If you
want the mode of continuous data, that is not well defined, though there
are devices to estimate such assuming, e.g., a specific distribution or
a general unimodal distribution or ... . This was discussed last Dec.
12-13 by Ted Harding, Brian Ripley and others. If you are interested,
you can go www.r-project.org -> search -> "R site search" -> "harding
mode". When I did this just now, the first hit was an email on how to
find the mode using a kernel density estimator. Clicking "next in
thread" a couple of times led me to a comment by Brian Ripley with a
pointer to a document discussing this.
... in case you are interested in more than what you already have.
spencer graves
Thanks greatly for the extended tip. Yes the data are continuous in a sense but there are discrete values that can be counted and tabled. The kernel density estimator shows up on my search as well. <snip rest of thread that followed> Cheers, Patrick