Thank you, Kevin, for the feedback.
1. The mode is not so interesting for continuous data. I would much
rather use something like density().
Absolutely. The help page for statmode() says it is for discrete data, and
points to density() for continuous data.
2. Both the iris and barley data
Arni,
Here are two examples:
R> statmode(iris)
Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species
"5" "3""1.4""0.2" "setosa"
R> table(iris$Species)
setosa versicolor virginica
50 50 50
R> library(lattice)
R> statmo
One descriptive statistic that is conspicuously missing from core R is the
statistical mode - the most frequent value in a discrete distribution.
I would like to propose adding the attached 'statmode' (or a similar
function) to the 'stats' package.
Currently, it can be quite cumbersome to cal
