Mode Calculator

What is Mode?

The mode is the value that appears most frequently in a dataset. Unlike mean and median, mode can be used with categorical data and a dataset can have one mode, multiple modes, or no mode at all.

Types of Mode

• Unimodal: One value appears most frequently
• Bimodal: Two values appear with equal highest frequency
• Multimodal: More than two values share the highest frequency
• No Mode: All values appear with equal frequency

Common Applications

• Retail: Identifying most popular product sizes or colors
• Education: Finding most common test scores or grades
• Manufacturing: Determining most frequent defect types
• Demographics: Analyzing most common age groups or income levels

Key Concepts

• Frequency: The number of times a value appears in the dataset
• Categorical Data: Mode is the only measure of central tendency that works with non-numeric data
• Distribution Shape: Multiple modes can indicate distinct groups within the data
• Outliers: Mode is not affected by extreme values, unlike mean