Question

What are the Uses of Mode?

Answer 1

Uses of Mode:

Mode is a measure of central tendency. It is the value with the highest frequency in the given set of data.

• It is the best measure of central tendency for highly skewed data since it is not affected by extreme values.
• The mode is easy to locate graphically unlike the other measures of central tendency.
• It is used to describe quantitative data.
• A data set can have no mode if there are no repeating values.
• If one value repeats, then there will be one mode.
• If more than one values repeat, there will be multiple modes.

For example: $1,2,3,4,5,5,5,6,7,7,8,9$ is the data set, $5$is occurring the most number of times.

So the mode of the data is $5.$

If $1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9$ is the data set, there are no values that occur more than once.

So there is no mode for this data.

If $1,2,3,4,4,4,5,6,6,6,7,8,9$ is the data set $4,6$is occurring the same number of times. So the mode is $4,6$