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

I can't vote yet but Rasmus Bååth's answer is what I was looking for. However, I would modify it a bit allowing to contrain the distribution for example fro values only between 0 and 1.

estimate_mode <- function(x,from=min(x), to=max(x)) {
  d <- density(x, from=from, to=to)
  d$x[which.max(d$y)]
}

We aware that you may not want to constrain at all your distribution, then set from=-"BIG NUMBER", to="BIG NUMBER"