Re: [R] summary() and the mode

2014-01-23 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Jan 23, 2014, at 2:27 PM, Ruhil, Anirudh wrote: > A student asked: Why does R's summary() command yield the Mean and the > Median, quartiles, min, and max but was written to exclude the Mode? > > I said I had no clue, googled the question without much luck, and am now > posting it to see i

Re: [R] summary() and the mode

2014-01-23 Thread Jim Lemon
On 01/24/2014 07:27 AM, Ruhil, Anirudh wrote: A student asked: Why does R's summary() command yield the Mean and the Median, quartiles, min, and max but was written to exclude the Mode? I said I had no clue, googled the question without much luck, and am now posting it to see if anybody knows

Re: [R] summary() and the mode

2014-01-23 Thread Rolf Turner
On 24/01/14 09:27, Ruhil, Anirudh wrote: A student asked: Why does R's summary() command yield the Mean and the Median, quartiles, min, and max but was written to exclude the Mode? I said I had no clue, googled the question without much luck, and am now posting it to see if anybody knows why.

[R] summary() and the mode

2014-01-23 Thread Ruhil, Anirudh
A student asked: Why does R's summary() command yield the Mean and the Median, quartiles, min, and max but was written to exclude the Mode? I said I had no clue, googled the question without much luck, and am now posting it to see if anybody knows why. Ani [[alternative HTML version