Defining Mathematical "Mode" in Octave

[John W. Eaton]

On  6-Mar-2008, DJBrewer wrote:

| I'm a newbie at Octave, trying to work in a MATLAB program.
| 
| my first error message is 'mode' undefined, which means I need to define a
| function for finding the mathematical "mode" of a series of numbers (i.e.,
| number that appears most often).  I'm struggling with finding the best way
| to do that. 
| 
| Would it require counting the number of times a unique number appears, and
| keeping the unique number that appears the most? Or is there a simpler
| method? 

What version of Octave are you using?  The current stable release,
version 3.0.0, includes a mode function.

jwe