Calculating the Mode

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on October 27, 2011 at 2:40pm

Hi John,

 

I think you're looking for the mode, not the mean. There's no direct way to compute the mode, but what you could do is use a Pie Chart to display the data set. If one value occurs way more often than others it will be visually obvious.

 

I can't think of a good way of doing this without using scripting, if you badly need this, I can write you a VB script.

 

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David Rutten

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Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on October 27, 2011 at 3:03pm

You could do it with the Set Components [Create Set], [Member Index] and then [Sort]

 

EDIT: looks like systemiq beat me to it

Permalink Reply by John Nguyen on October 27, 2011 at 4:08pm

this actually, works. would this account for the list of numbers not have some number repeated more than once?

 

Thanks!

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on October 27, 2011 at 4:13pm

The number would have to appear at least once to get inclusion in the set.

Permalink Reply by Yoann Mescam (Systemiq) on October 27, 2011 at 2:58pm

Most displayed number is first in the right panel.

Didnt test it much, may be wrong.

EDIT: smiley !