How to find the statistical mode?

Question

In R, mean() and median() are standard functions which do what you\'d expect. mode() tells you the internal storage mode of the objec

Answer 1

A quick and dirty way of estimating the mode of a vector of numbers you believe come from a continous univariate distribution (e.g. a normal distribution) is defining and using the following function:

estimate_mode <- function(x) {
  d <- density(x)
  d$x[which.max(d$y)]
}

Then to get the mode estimate:

x <- c(5.8, 5.6, 6.2, 4.1, 4.9, 2.4, 3.9, 1.8, 5.7, 3.2)
estimate_mode(x)
## 5.439788