R: Mode function (Matlab style)

Mode {pracma} | R Documentation

## Mode function (Matlab style)

### Description

Most frequent value in vector or matrix

### Usage

    Mode(x)

### Arguments

`x` | Real or complex vector or of factor levels.

### Details

Computes the ‘sample mode’, i.e. the most frequently occurring value in x.

Among values occurring equally frequently, `Mode()` chooses the smallest one (for a numeric vector), one with a smallest absolute value (for complex ones) or the first occurring value (for factor levels).

A matrix will be changed to a vector.

### Value

One element from x and of the same type. The number of occurrences will not be returned.

### Note

In Matlab/Octave an array dimension can be selected along which to find the mode value; this has not been realized here.

Shadows the R function `mode` that returns essentially the type of an object.

### See Also

`median`

### Examples

    x <- round(rnorm(1000), 2)
    Mode(x)

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