The mode is a measure of central tendency that represents the most frequently occurring value in a dataset. In other words, it is the value or values that appear with the highest frequency. Unlike the mean and median, which represent central values in the dataset, the mode identifies the value(s) that occur most frequently.


A dataset can have:

  • Ø No Mode: If all values occur with the same frequency, or if there are no repeated values, the dataset is said to have no mode.
  • Ø Unimodal: If one value occurs more frequently than any other, the dataset is unimodal, and that value is the mode.
  • Ø Bimodal: If two values have the highest frequency and occur more frequently than other values, the dataset is bimodal.
  • Ø Multimodal: If more than two values share the highest frequency, the dataset is multimodal.

For example, in the dataset [2, 4, 4, 6, 7, 4, 8], the mode is 4 because it appears more frequently than any other value.

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