Learn in the textbookDescriptive Statistics (Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion)
DefinitionThe mode (最頻値) is the value that appears most often in the data.
ExplanationCount how many times each value appears and pick the value with the highest count. No arithmetic is involved, so the mode also works for non-numeric data such as favorite colors. If two or more values tie for the highest count, there are two or more modes.
AnalogyThe item a store sold the most of on a given day is the mode of that day's sales record.
Memory hookThe kanji 頻 in 最頻値 is the one used in words for "frequent" and "frequency," so it signals how often something occurs.