Commonest

Commonest(dataValueList)

the mode of a list of data values is the value that appears most often.

Commonest(dataValueList, n)

return the n values that appears most often.

See

• Wikipedia - Mode (statistics)

Examples

>> Commonest({1, 3, 6, 6, 6, 6, 7, 7, 12, 12, 17})
{6}

Given the list of data {1, 1, 2, 4, 4} the mode is not unique – the dataset may be said to be bimodal, while a set with more than two modes may be described as multimodal.

>> Commonest({1, 1, 2, 4, 4})
{1,4}

Related terms

Counts, Tally

Implementation status

• ✅ - full supported

Github

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