On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 14:56:42 -0800 Spencer Graves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Evidently, I didn't read your question carefully enough. If you > want the mode of continuous data, that is not well defined, though there > are devices to estimate such assuming, e.g., a specific distribution or > a general unimodal distribution or ... . This was discussed last Dec. > 12-13 by Ted Harding, Brian Ripley and others. If you are interested, > you can go www.r-project.org -> search -> "R site search" -> "harding > mode". When I did this just now, the first hit was an email on how to > find the mode using a kernel density estimator. Clicking "next in > thread" a couple of times led me to a comment by Brian Ripley with a > pointer to a document discussing this. > > ... in case you are interested in more than what you already have. > > spencer graves Thanks greatly for the extended tip. Yes the data are continuous in a sense but there are discrete values that can be counted and tabled. The kernel density estimator shows up on my search as well. <snip rest of thread that followed> Cheers, Patrick ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
