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mode

The value that appears most frequently in a data set; a data set may have one mode, more than one mode, or no mode.

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Example

In the data set {2, 3, 3, 5, 7}, the mode is 3 because it occurs more frequently than any other value.

Synonyms

most frequent valuemodal value

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