Dealing with ties in the Mode Function

DRJ

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• Mar 14, 2004

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If there is a tie the Mode() function will return the first value it encountered in this case 7. If the numbers were

9
7
7
7
9
9

It would return 9.

If you want multiple values you would probably need to make your own function.

 

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I understand that. That is why I am asking for help?

 

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Yogi Anand

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Hi Stephen:

I recall we dealt recently with some questios regarding 1st mode, and 2nd mode, etc. Anyway, let us have a look at ...

Book1
	A	B	C	D	E
1	2		7
2	3		8	8
3	4
4	1
5	7
6	8
7	5
8	7
9	8
Sheet1

Cell C1 hoses the 1st mode, and cells C2 and D2, the light Turquoise and light yellow colored cells house two alternate formulations for the 2nd mode.

Is this what you are looking for?

 

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DRJ

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Just to add a bit. Those are both array formulas you when you enter them press (control + shift + enter) and not just enter to make them work.

 

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When you have a notion of what (multiple) results you are expecting, you can use countif() to to return the count of each value you are expecting. In a long sequence of entries this may be not be feasible.

couple that with a column of: small(

#VALUE!

 

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acw

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HI

A UDF. Note that it will return the #VALUE! error message if there is no mode.

Tony

Function moder(x As Range)
Dim modes As New Collection

For Each ce In x
If WorksheetFunction.CountIf(x, ce) = WorksheetFunction.CountIf(x, WorksheetFunction.Mode(x)) Then
On Error Resume Next
modes.Add Item:=ce, key:=Str(ce)
End If
Next

For i = 1 To modes.Count
moder = moder & "," & modes(i)
Next i
moder = WorksheetFunction.Substitute(moder, ",", "", 1)
End Function

 

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Thanks Tony and Yogi. Tony thats the approach that I was looking for! Thank you also Yogi for your time as well as nbrcrunch and DRJ

 

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