Mode function (Matlab style)

Most frequent value in vector or matrix

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)
#> [1] -0.51