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 would use the density() function to identify a smoothed maximum of a (possibly continuous) distribution :

function(x) density(x, 2)$x[density(x, 2)$y == max(density(x, 2)$y)]

where x is the data collection. Pay attention to the adjust paremeter of the density function which regulate the smoothing.