Re: Defining Mathematical "Mode" in Octave

[Doug Stewart]

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? 
>
> Thanks
>   
mode works for me in 3.0.0