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Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/statistics.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/statistics.py | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/statistics.py b/Lib/statistics.py index d81596e5d8a..0d747b3d6c0 100644 --- a/Lib/statistics.py +++ b/Lib/statistics.py @@ -555,8 +555,9 @@ def mode(data): """ data = iter(data) + pairs = Counter(data).most_common(1) try: - return Counter(data).most_common(1)[0][0] + return pairs[0][0] except IndexError: raise StatisticsError('no mode for empty data') from None @@ -602,6 +603,7 @@ def multimode(data): # mean=0.300. Only the latter (which corresponds with R6) gives the # desired cut point with 30% of the population falling below that # value, making it comparable to a result from an inv_cdf() function. +# The R6 exclusive method is also idempotent. # For describing population data where the end points are known to # be included in the data, the R7 inclusive method is a reasonable |