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GCSE Geography · key term
The value occurring most frequently in a dataset.
Used by AQA and OCR
Paper 1, Paper 2, Paper 3
Revise: Descriptive Statistics: Central Tendency, Spread and PercentagesThe mode is the most frequent value. Here it is 3 cm, which occurs twice. A dataset can have more than one mode, or no single value occurring more frequently than the others.
Specification 9.3 · Paper 1, Paper 2, Paper 3
The value or category that occurs most frequently.
Revise: Measures of Central Tendency and SpreadThe mode is the most frequent value. A dataset can have more than one mode, or no uniquely most frequent value.
For grouped data, distinguish the modal class from a single mode. Values read from a cumulative frequency curve are estimates.
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