En estadística, la moda es el valor con mayor frecuencia en una distribución de datos. Se hablará de una distribución bimodal de los datos adquiridos en una columna cuando encontremos dos modas, es decir, dos datos que tengan la misma frecuencia absoluta máxima. Una distribución trimodal de los datos es en la que encontramos tres modas. Si todas las variables tienen la misma frecuencia diremos que no hay moda. El intervalo modal es el de mayor frecuencia absoluta. Cuando tratamos con datos agrupados antes de definir la moda, se ha de definir el intervalo modal. La moda, cuando los datos están agrupados, es un punto que divide al intervalo modal en dos partes de la forma p y c-p, siendo c la amplitud del intervalo, que verifiquen que: Siendo la frecuencia absoluta del intervalo modal las frecuencias absolutas de los intervalos anterior y posterior, respectivamente, al intervalo modal.

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The mode is the value that appears most often in a set of data. The mode of a discrete probability distribution is the value x at which its probability mass function takes its maximum value. In other words, it is the value that is most likely to be sampled. The mode of a continuous probability distribution is the value x at which its probability density function has its maximum value, so the mode is at the peak. Like the statistical mean and median, the mode is a way of expressing, in a single number, important information about a random variable or a population. The numerical value of the mode is the same as that of the mean and median in a normal distribution, and it may be very different in highly skewed distributions. The mode is not necessarily unique to a given distribution, since the probability mass function or probability density function may take the same maximum value at several points x1, x2, etc. The most extreme case occurs in uniform distributions, where all values occur equally frequently. When a probability density function has multiple local maxima it is common to refer to all of the local maxima as modes of the distribution. Such a continuous distribution is called multimodal (as opposed to unimodal). In symmetric unimodal distributions, such as the normal distribution, the mean (if defined), median and mode all coincide. For samples, if it is known that they are drawn from a symmetric distribution, the sample mean can be used as an estimate of the population mode.

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