Sunday, September 14, 2014

MODE, MODE.MULT,MODE.SNGL - Descriptive Statistics using Microsoft Excel Statistical Functions - Measures of Central Tendency

The practice sheet can be downloaded from Link. Statistics Marks Data - Download Sheet

About the Data Sheet - The data in this sheet is related to marks scored by 100 Students in a Statistical Test. 

Based on the data, we will use Microsoft Excel Statistical functions to analyse the descriptive statistics. 

In the Data Sheet, we have Data from A2:A101, A1 being the header of the Data. 

MODE
A statistical term that refers to the most frequently occurring number found in a set of numbers.
The mode is found by collecting and organizing the data in order to count the frequency of each result. The result with the highest occurrences is the mode of the set.

= MODE(number1,[number2],...])

In the Data Sheet, we have Data from A2:A101, A1 being the header of the Data. 

=MODE(A2:A101)

Result is 80

9 Students got 80 marks and since 80 is the most frequently occurring number in the data set it is identified as mode.

The MODE.SNGL and the MODE.MULT functions both find the statistical mode (the most commonly occurring value (or values) of a supplied set of numbers).

The difference between the functions occurs when the supplied data set has more than one mode. The Mode.Sngl function returns the lowest of these values, whereas the Mode.Mult function returns an array of all of the modes. 

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