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- Definition most common value obtained in a set of observations Reference 'Mode', Wolfram MathWorld http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Mode.html [19.1.2016]
- Comment Although the idea of the most frequently encountered or fashionable value of the variate is probably very old, it was not generally used in statistics until popularised by K. Pearson (1894). Ref.: Kendall & Buckland, Dictionary of Statistical Terms, 1982 See also:- measure of central tendency (broader) [ IATE:1570799 ] - geometric mean (related) [ IATE:1570865 ]- arithmetic mean (related) [ IATE:1350502 ] - median (related) [ IATE:1253943 ]
- valeur modale | valeur dominante | valeur la plus probable | mode
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- Definition valeur d'une variable aléatoire telle que la probabilité, variable discrète, ou la densité de probabilité, variable continue, ait un maximum pour cette valeur ; dans le cas d'une variable discrète, valeur (s) dont l'effectif, la fréquence, est maximal (e) Reference NF X 06-002:1971 ; NF X 06-003:1971