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Defining Mathematical "Mode" in Octave
From: |
John W. Eaton |
Subject: |
Defining Mathematical "Mode" in Octave |
Date: |
Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:24:37 -0500 |
On 6-Mar-2008, DJBrewer wrote:
| I'm a newbie at Octave, trying to work in a MATLAB program.
|
| my first error message is 'mode' undefined, which means I need to define a
| function for finding the mathematical "mode" of a series of numbers (i.e.,
| number that appears most often). I'm struggling with finding the best way
| to do that.
|
| Would it require counting the number of times a unique number appears, and
| keeping the unique number that appears the most? Or is there a simpler
| method?
What version of Octave are you using? The current stable release,
version 3.0.0, includes a mode function.
jwe