Hi Gregor, if you have a continous distribution is rather difficult that the same value is repeated many times. In this case I believe you could not find the mode (the most frequent value in distribution) as your distribution is continous, but only the modal class/interval (the interval of the distribution having the most frequency). See this example:
set.seed(13) x<-rnorm(100) xcut<-cut(x, breaks=c(-4,-3,-2,-1,0,1,2,3,4)) table(xcut)
xcut
(-4,-3] (-3,-2] (-2,-1] (-1,0] (0,1] (1,2]
(2,3] (3,4]
0 1 19 33 30 17
0 0
max(table(xcut))
[1] 33 the modal class/interval is (-1,0]. I hope I give a little help. Best Vito
You wrote:
Hello! I have a continous distribution and would like to get mode (the most frequent value in distribution). I easily found mean, median and other basic thing but not mode function. Can anyone help? I know there my might be problems with multiple modes, but still I think that there should be a mode function in R. Please send mail to R-help list and me, so I can get response faster. Thank you!
Lep pozdrav / With regards,
Gregor GORJANC
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