Definition of Mode : (http://www.edurite.

com/kbase/how-to-find-mode-of-grouped-data)

The mode is most common or most popular data value. It is sometime called as modal value. The
mode is most useful when one value appears much more often than nay other. Mode need not to
be unique, there may be more than one mode present in the data.

How to Find Mode of Grouped Data :

Step 1: for the set of numbers arrange the numbers in ascending order.
Step 2: count the number of times that each number is repeated.
Step 3: The number that occurs the most of time is called as modal number or mode.

A set with two mode is referred as Bimodal, Three mode is Trimodal

Example 1: The following are the number of question given in each lesson of the text book.
7,3,4,5,10,12,13,15,2,3

Step 1: Arrange the numbers in Ascending order.

2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 12, 13, 15, 18
Step 2:Count the number of times that each number is repeated.
2=13=2 4=1 5=17=1
10 = 1 12 = 1 13 = 1 15 = 1 18 = 1
Step 3: The number which occurred more time is 3 ( 2 times is repeated )
Mode of the set is 3.

Example 2 : 5,3,4,6,2,7,10,12,11,10,4,13,4,

Step 1: Arrange the numbers in Ascending order.

2, 3, 4, 4, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 10, 11, 12, 13
Step 2: Count the number of times that each number is repeated.
2=1 3=1 4=3 5=1 6=1
7 = 1 10 = 2 11 = 1 12 = 1 13 = 1
Step 3: The number which occurred more time is 4 ( 3 times is repeated )
Mode of the set is 4.

Example 3 : Find the mode from the frequency distribution

Variable 10 20 30 40 50
Frequency 4 10 6 15 20

From the above frequency distribution table, 50 occurs maximum times with highest frequency 20.

How to Find the Mode in a Frequency Distribution

Grouped frequency distribution are used when the range of score is too large.

In an Frequency Distribution
Formula for Mode (grouped data )

Example: Gives the details different age group workers in an company. Compute the value of mode.

Class Interval Frequency

15-20 25
21-25 50
26-30 10
31-35 5
36-40 4
41-45 2

l = lower limit of modal class = 20.5

f1 = frequency of modal class = 50
fo = frequency of class preceding the modal class. = 25
f2 = frequency of class higher than modal class = 10
h = size or width of class interval. = 5

No Mode:
When the given set don’t have any mode is called as No Mode.

Example: The following data re the marks scored by Arjun in his exam.
35,42,40,45,36,46

Solution: Step 1: Arrange the given set or data in ascending order.

35,36,40,42,45,46
Step 2: Number of times each number have appeared
35=1 36=1 40=1 42=1 45=1 46=1
Step 3: Mode is zero because there is no highest times of given number.
The mode is called No Mode.

Uses of Mode:
It is used for quick and approximate measure of frequency.
The Mode can be located with inspection.
The Mode is used in real time to find the maximum response of filed or interest.

What is the Mode? (http://www.statisticshowto.com/mode/)

The mode, or modal value, is the most common number in a data set. It’s useful in statistics because
it can tell you what the most popular item in your set is. For example, you might have results from a
customer survey where your company is rated from 1 to 5. If the most popular answer is 2, then you
know you need to make some improvements in customer service!

A data set can have no mode, one, or many:

 None: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9.
 One mode: unimodal: 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5.
 Two: bimodal: 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 4, 5.
 Three: trimodal: 1, 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 5.
 More than one (two, three or more) = multimodal.

Find the Mode: Steps

Sample question: Find the mode for the following data set:
56, 57, 56, 58, 59, 90, 98, 98, 65, 45, 34, 34, 23, 23, 24, 33, 56, 67, 78, 87, 87, 56.

Step 1: Put the numbers in order:

23 23 24 33 34 34 45 56 56 56 56 57 58 59 65 67 78 87 87 90 98 98
Step 2: Count how many times each number appears. This may be easier if you put the numbers in
a column/row format like this:
23 23
24
33
34 34
45
56 56 56 56
57
58
59
65
67
78
87 87
90
98 98
The most common number is 56 in this data set (it appears 4 times).

Use[edit] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_(statistics)#Mode_of_a_sample)
Unlike mean and median, the concept of mode also makes sense for "nominal data" (i.e.,
not consisting of numerical values in the case of mean, or even of ordered values in the
case of median). For example, taking a sample of Korean family names, one might find
that "Kim" occurs more often than any other name. Then "Kim" would be the mode of the
sample. In any voting system where a plurality determines victory, a single modal value
determines the victor, while a multi-modal outcome would require some tie-breaking
procedure to take place.
Unlike median, the concept of mode makes sense for any random variable assuming
values from a vector space, including the real numbers (a one-dimensional vector space)
and the integers (which can be considered embedded in the reals). For example, a
distribution of points in the plane will typically have a mean and a mode, but the concept
of median does not apply. The median makes sense when there is a linear order on the
possible values. Generalizations of the concept of median to higher-dimensional spaces
are the geometric median and the centerpoint.
Uniqueness and definedness[edit]
For some probability distributions, the expected value may be infinite or undefined, but if
defined, it is unique. The mean of a (finite) sample is always defined. The median is the
value such that the fractions not exceeding it and not falling below it are each at least
1/2. It is not necessarily unique, but never infinite or totally undefined. For a data sample
it is the "halfway" value when the list of values is ordered in increasing value, where
usually for a list of even length the numerical average is taken of the two values closest
to "halfway". Finally, as said before, the mode is not necessarily unique.
Certain pathological distributions (for example, the Cantor distribution) have no defined
mode at all.[citation needed] For a finite data sample, the mode is one (or more) of the values in
the sample.

In statistics, a bimodal distribution is a continuous probability distribution with two

different modes. These appear as distinct peaks (local maxima) in the probability density
function, as shown in Figures 1 and 2.
More generally, a multimodal distribution is a continuous probability distribution with
two or more modes,
In mathematics, unimodality means possessing a unique mode. More generally,
unimodality means there is only a single highest value, somehow defined, of some
mathematical object.[1]

(http://www.purplemath.com/modules/meanmode.htm)
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there is no mode for the list.
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