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Definition of Modal value
1. Noun. The most frequent value of a random variable.
Category relationships: Statistics
Generic synonyms: Average, Norm
Derivative terms: Modal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Modal Value
Literary usage of Modal value
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mechanism of Evolution in Leptinotarsa by William Lawrence Tower, Joseph Kumler Breitenbecher (1918)
"When a race is isolated that has the form-index 2.950 as its constant modal value
and is crossed with pure decemlineata from the parent strain, ..."
2. Statistical Methods Applied to Education: A Textbook for Students of by Harold Ordway Rugg (1917)
"Inspection of the frequency polygon reveals the modal value (or modal ...
This specific modal value, which is the mid-value of the class- interval that ..."
3. The Grammar of Science by Karl Pearson (1900)
"The organ or character a falls within the range observed for individuals of the
given race, but does not coincide with the modal value of the organ or ..."
4. Heredity in the Light of Recent Research by Leonard Doncaster (1912)
"sons will on the average diverge less ; they will vary about a modal value lying
between the general mode and the fathers' measurement. ..."
5. Oil and Gas Reserves of the Fergana Region, Uzbekistan, Tadzhikistan, and (1994)
"The USGS's estimated modal value for undiscovered recoverable oil, at 3.0 billion
... deep central graben) 2.700 USGS Total Undiscovered (modal value, ..."
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