有一个包谦和提供单变量单模态(有时是多模态)数据的模态估计和通常概率分布的模态值。

mySamples <- c(19, 4, 5, 7, 29, 19, 29, 13, 25, 19)

library(modeest)
mlv(mySamples, method = "mfv")

Mode (most likely value): 19 
Bickel's modal skewness: -0.1 
Call: mlv.default(x = mySamples, method = "mfv")

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你也可以在CRAN任务视图:概率分布中寻找“模式估计”。已经提出了两个新的一揽子计划。

我还不能投票，但Rasmus Bååth的答案是我一直在寻找的。 但是，我将稍微修改一下，允许将分布限制在0到1之间。

estimate_mode <- function(x,from=min(x), to=max(x)) {
  d <- density(x, from=from, to=to)
  d$x[which.max(d$y)]
}

我们知道你可能根本不想约束你的分布，那么设置from=-"BIG NUMBER"， to="BIG NUMBER"

我浏览了所有这些选项，开始想知道它们的相对特性和性能，所以我做了一些测试。如果其他人也好奇，我在这里分享我的结果。

我不想为这里发布的所有函数而烦恼，我选择了一个基于一些标准的示例:函数应该对字符、因子、逻辑和数字向量都有效，它应该适当地处理na和其他有问题的值，输出应该是“合理的”，即没有数字作为字符或其他类似的愚蠢行为。

我还添加了一个我自己的函数，它是基于与chrispy相同的想法，除了适应更一般的用途:

library(magrittr)

Aksel <- function(x, freq=FALSE) {
    z <- 2
    if (freq) z <- 1:2
    run <- x %>% as.vector %>% sort %>% rle %>% unclass %>% data.frame
    colnames(run) <- c("freq", "value")
    run[which(run$freq==max(run$freq)), z] %>% as.vector   
}

set.seed(2)

F <- sample(c("yes", "no", "maybe", NA), 10, replace=TRUE) %>% factor
Aksel(F)

# [1] maybe yes  

C <- sample(c("Steve", "Jane", "Jonas", "Petra"), 20, replace=TRUE)
Aksel(C, freq=TRUE)

# freq value
#    7 Steve

最后，我通过微基准测试在两组测试数据上运行了五个函数。函数名指的是它们各自的作者:

Chris的函数被设置为method="modes"和na。rm=TRUE默认值，以使其更具可比性，但除此之外，这里使用的函数是由它们的作者提供的。

In matter of speed alone Kens version wins handily, but it is also the only one of these that will only report one mode, no matter how many there really are. As is often the case, there's a trade-off between speed and versatility. In method="mode", Chris' version will return a value iff there is one mode, else NA. I think that's a nice touch. I also think it's interesting how some of the functions are affected by an increased number of unique values, while others aren't nearly as much. I haven't studied the code in detail to figure out why that is, apart from eliminating logical/numeric as a the cause.

在r邮件列表中发现了这个，希望对你有帮助。我也是这么想的。您将希望table()数据，排序，然后选择第一个名称。这有点粗俗，但应该有用。

names(sort(-table(x)))[1]

模式并不是在所有情况下都有用。所以函数应该处理这种情况。试试下面的函数。

Mode <- function(v) {
  # checking unique numbers in the input
  uniqv <- unique(v)
  # frquency of most occured value in the input data
  m1 <- max(tabulate(match(v, uniqv)))
  n <- length(tabulate(match(v, uniqv)))
  # if all elements are same
  same_val_check <- all(diff(v) == 0)
  if(same_val_check == F){
    # frquency of second most occured value in the input data
    m2 <- sort(tabulate(match(v, uniqv)),partial=n-1)[n-1]
    if (m1 != m2) {
      # Returning the most repeated value
      mode <- uniqv[which.max(tabulate(match(v, uniqv)))]
    } else{
      mode <- "Two or more values have same frequency. So mode can't be calculated."
    }
  } else {
    # if all elements are same
    mode <- unique(v)
  }
  return(mode)
}

输出,

x1 <- c(1,2,3,3,3,4,5)
Mode(x1)
# [1] 3

x2 <- c(1,2,3,4,5)
Mode(x2)
# [1] "Two or more varibles have same frequency. So mode can't be calculated."

x3 <- c(1,1,2,3,3,4,5)
Mode(x3)
# [1] "Two or more values have same frequency. So mode can't be calculated."

我发现Ken Williams上面的帖子很棒，我添加了几行来解释NA值，并使其成为一个函数。

Mode <- function(x, na.rm = FALSE) {
  if(na.rm){
    x = x[!is.na(x)]
  }

  ux <- unique(x)
  return(ux[which.max(tabulate(match(x, ux)))])
}