modal value

1. 1.

   the most frequent value of a random variable

   Synonymsmode

   Broaderaverage

   statistics

Questions about modal value

What does modal value mean?

modal value means "the most frequent value of a random variable".

What is another word for modal value?

Close synonyms include mode. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is modal value a common word?

modal value is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.