Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettin...@gmail.com> added the comment: I would stick with "first_tie=False". That caters to the common case, avoids API complications, and does something similar to what other stats packages are doing.
----- API Survey ---- Maple: """This function is only guaranteed to return one potential mode - in cases where multiple modes exist, only the first detected mode is guaranteed to be returned.""" -- https://www.maplesoft.com/support/help/maple/view.aspx?path=Statistics%2fMode R: 'R does not have a standard in-built function to calculate mode.' -- https://www.tutorialspoint.com/r/r_mean_median_mode.htm Matlab: "When there are multiple values occurring equally frequently, mode returns the smallest of those values. ... If A is an empty 0-by-0 matrix, mode(A) returns NaN." -- https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/mode.html Mathematica: "The mode of a set of data is implemented in the Wolfram Language as Commonest[data]. ... When several elements occur with equal frequency, Commonest[list,…] picks first the ones that occur first in list." -- http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Mode.html and https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Commonest.html SciPy: "If there is more than one such value, only the smallest is returned." -- https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy-0.19.1/reference/generated/scipy.stats.mode.html SAS: "Most frequent value (if not unique, the smallest mode)" -- https://documentation.sas.com/?docsetId=qcug&docsetTarget=qcug_capability_sect225.htm&docsetVersion=14.2&locale=en ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue35892> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
