MODE
Returns the most frequently occurring value in a data set
Syntax
MODE(value1, [value2])
Arguments
| Argument | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
value1 |
The first number or array of numbers | Required |
value2 |
Additional numbers or arrays | Optional |
Examples
Find mode of individual numbers
=MODE(1, 2, 2, 2, 1)
Result ⇒2
Mode from range of values
=MODE(A1:A6)
Result ⇒5
| A | |
| 1 | 5 |
| 2 | 3 |
| 3 | 5 |
| 4 | 8 |
| 5 | 5 |
| 6 | 3 |
Mode of test scores
=MODE(A1:A5)
Result ⇒85
| A | |
| 1 | 85 |
| 2 | 90 |
| 3 | 85 |
| 4 | 92 |
| 5 | 85 |
Related Functions
Other Statistical functions:
- AVEDEV - Returns the average of the absolute deviations of data points from their mean
- AVERAGE - Returns the average of given arguments. Text is ignored.
- CORREL - Returns the correlation coefficient between two data sets
- COUNT - Returns the count of numeric values in a dataset.
- COUNTA - Returns the count of values in a list of arguments including text, logical values, error values, and empty text.
- COUNTIF - Returns the count of cells that meet a specified criteria
- COUNTIFS - Returns the count of criteria_ranges based on the given criterions.
- FORECAST - Calculates, or predicts, a future value by using existing values
- LARGE - Returns the k-th largest value in a data set
- MAX - Returns the largest number from the provided arguments
- MEDIAN - Returns the median of the given numbers
- MIN - Returns the smallest number from the provided arguments
- MINIFS - Returns the minimum value from a range that meets multiple criteria.
- PERCENTILE - Returns the k-th percentile of values in a range
- PERCENTRANK - Returns the rank of a value in a dataset as a percentage (0 to 1) of the dataset
- RANK - Returns the rank of a number from the list of other numeric values
- SMALL - Returns the k-th smallest value in a data set
- STDEV - Returns the estimated standard deviation based on a sample
- STDEVP - Calculates standard deviation based on the entire population
- SUMIF - Returns the sum of a range depending on criteria
- SUMPRODUCT - Returns the sum of products for a list of arguments
- VAR - Returns the estimated variance for a sample of data
- VARP - Calculates variance based on the entire population