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モードMode

Learn in the textbookDescriptive Statistics (Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion)

DefinitionIn Japanese, the mode also appears as the loanword モード, another name for 最頻値 meaning the value that appears most often.

ExplanationIt is found the same way as 最頻値: count how often each value appears and choose the most frequent one. Whether a document writes 最頻値 or モード, it refers to the same value.

Memory hookLink it to mode in fashion: what is in style is what the most people are choosing.