{"id":1941,"date":"2019-07-25T11:11:04","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T11:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commerceiets.com\/?p=1941"},"modified":"2019-07-25T11:11:04","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T11:11:04","slug":"mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commerceiets.com\/mode\/","title":{"rendered":"MODE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_65 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title \" >Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/commerceiets.com\/mode\/#MEANING\" title=\"MEANING\">MEANING<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/commerceiets.com\/mode\/#MERITS_OF_MODE\" title=\"MERITS OF MODE\">MERITS OF MODE<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/commerceiets.com\/mode\/#DEMERITS_OF_MODE\" title=\"DEMERITS OF MODE\">DEMERITS OF MODE<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"meaning\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"MEANING\"><\/span><strong>MEANING<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" src=\"https:\/\/commerceiets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/download-92.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5261\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Mode is a positional <a href=\"https:\/\/commerceiets.com\/measures-of-central-tendency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"measure of central tendency (opens in a new tab)\">measure of central tendency<\/a>.&nbsp; It is that value which occurs most frequently in any distribution. That means the items which are repeated a maximum time in the given distribution is known as mode. It is generally denoted by <strong>\u2018Z\u2019<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-amber-background-color has-background has-medium-font-size\"><strong>ACCORDING TO CROXTON AND COWDEN<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cThe mode of a distribution is the value at the point around which the items tend to be most heavily concentrated. It may be regarded as the most typical of a series of values.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-amber-background-color has-background has-medium-font-size\"><strong>ACCORDING TO ZIZEK<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cIt is the value occurring most frequently in a series of items and around which the other items are distributed most densely.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-amber-background-color has-background has-medium-font-size\"><strong>ACCORDING TO A.M. TUTTLE <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cMode is the value which has the greatest frequency or density in its immediate neighborhood.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"384\" height=\"131\" src=\"https:\/\/commerceiets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/download-72.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commerceiets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/download-72.png 384w, https:\/\/commerceiets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/download-72-300x102.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Thus, mode is that value of the variable around which there\nis highest concentration of values.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"merits-of-mode\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"MERITS_OF_MODE\"><\/span>MERITS OF MODE<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>SIMPLE TO CALCULATE AND UNDERSTAND: <\/strong>It is the simplest measure of central tendency. It can be found out by inspection also as it is the value that occurs maximum time in the series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>SCIENTIFIC AND COMMERCIAL USE<\/strong>: It has its importance in the scientific and commercial fields in particular. It is highly useful where we are concerned with the production of items depending upon its size such as shoes, shirts etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>GREATER CHANCE IN SAMPLE SELECTION: <\/strong>It occurs frequently in the series. It is the value that occurs most of the times. Thus the chance of the selection of value of mode is highest in sampling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>HELPS IN STUDYING QUALITATIVE PHENOMENON: <\/strong>It can be calculated in series which are classified on qualitative basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>NOT AFFECTED BY SAMPLING FLUCTUATIONS OR EXTREME ITEMS: <\/strong>The presence of extreme items affects its value very little.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>CAN BE DETERMINED GRAPHICALLY:<\/strong> It is the positional measure of central tendency. It can be found graphically.<strong> The histograms are prepared to locate the mode graphically.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>CAN BE CALCULATED IN CASE OF OPEN END SERIES: <\/strong>In case of open end class intervals, it can be easily calculated without converting the series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"demerits-of-mode\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"DEMERITS_OF_MODE\"><\/span><strong>DEMERITS OF MODE<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>NOT RELIABLE:<\/strong> It is the suitable measure for large amount of data. In case there is small size of sample, the value of mode will be not much representative as well as not dependable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>NO ALGEBRAIC MANIPULATION:<\/strong> It is not based on algebraic treatments which makes it an unfit measure for further statistical treatments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>ILL-DEFINED:<\/strong> It can be ill defined in many series and then it cannot be calculated by the usual method. Thus, there involves alternative treatments to find out the Z.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>NOT RIGIDLY DEFINED:<\/strong> It cannot be rigidly defined as there are various methods of its calculation but all methods do not give same results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>CANNOT BE DETERMINED ALWAYS: <\/strong>It cannot be determined always. There arises a situation where the series may be bi-modal, tri-modal or multi modal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Also Study:<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Also Study:<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Also Study:<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Also Study:<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Also Study:<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/commerceiets.com\/measures-of-central-tendency\/\">Measures of central tendency<\/a><\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/commerceiets.com\/arithmetic-mean\/\">Arithmetic Mean<\/a><\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/commerceiets.com\/median\/\">Median<\/a><\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/commerceiets.com\/distrust-of-statistics\/\">Distrust of statistics<\/a><\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/commerceiets.com\/statistics\/\">Statistics<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/commerceiets.com\/functions-of-statistics\/\">Functions of statistics<\/a><\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/commerceiets.com\/scope-of-statistics\/\">Scope of statistics<\/a><\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/commerceiets.com\/limitations-of-statistics\/\">Limitations of Statistics<\/a><\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/kajal-mahajan-7549b2197\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CONNECT ON LINKEDIN<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"152\" src=\"https:\/\/commerceiets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/cropped-cropped-Presentation-resize-1.jpg\" alt=\"MODE\" class=\"wp-image-4836\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commerceiets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/cropped-cropped-Presentation-resize-1.jpg 512w, https:\/\/commerceiets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/cropped-cropped-Presentation-resize-1-300x89.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><figcaption>MODE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEANING Mode is a positional measure of central tendency.&nbsp; It is that value which occurs most frequently in any distribution. That means the items which are repeated a maximum time in the given distribution is known as mode. It is generally denoted by \u2018Z\u2019. ACCORDING TO CROXTON AND COWDEN \u201cThe mode of a distribution is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/commerceiets.com\/mode\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;MODE&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[89,90],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commerceiets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commerceiets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commerceiets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commerceiets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commerceiets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/commerceiets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commerceiets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commerceiets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commerceiets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commerceiets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}