Mode, Most Frequent Value(s)

Description

Calculates the mode, the most frequent value, of a variable x. This makes mostly sense for qualitative data.

Usage

Mode(x, na.rm = FALSE)

Arguments

Value

Returns the most frequent value. If there are more than one, all of them are returned in a vector.

Note

Consider using density(x)$x[which.max(density(x)$y)] for quantitative data or alternatively use hist().
Another interesting idea:

peak <- optimize(function(x, model) predict(model, data.frame(x = x)),
                 c(min(x), max(x)),
                 maximum = TRUE,
                 model = y.loess) 
            
points(peak$maximum, peak$objective, pch=FILLED.CIRCLE <- 19) 

Author(s)

Andri Signorell <andri@signorell.net>

See Also

mean, median

Examples

data(d.pizza)
Mode(d.pizza$driver)

# use sapply for evaluating data.frames (resp. apply for matrices)
sapply(d.pizza[,c("driver","temperature","date")], Mode, na.rm=TRUE)