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modeest: Estimation of the mode

The package 'modeest' provides estimators of the mode of univariate unimodal (and sometimes multimodal) data and values of the modes of usual probability distributions.

Installation

You can install the release version of modeest from the CRAN with:

install.packages("modeest")

You can install the development version of modeest from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("paulponcet/modeest")

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install.packages('modeest')

Monthly Downloads

17,431

Version

2.5.0

License

GPL-3

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Maintainer

Paul PONCET

Last Published

September 20th, 2026

Functions in modeest (2.5.0)

parzen

Parzen's Kernel mode estimator
reexports

Objects exported from other packages
mlv

Estimation of the Mode(s) or Most Likely Value(s)
lientz

The empirical Lientz function and the Lientz mode estimator
distrMode

Mode of some continuous and discrete distributions
hrm

Bickel's half-range mode estimator
hsm

Half sample mode estimator
asselin

The Asselin de Beauville mode estimator
grenander

The Grenander mode estimator
meanshift

The Meanshift mode estimator
naive

The Chernoff or 'naive' mode estimator
modeest

Mode Estimation
venter

The Venter / Dalenius / LMS mode estimator
tsybakov

The Tsybakov mode estimator
vieu

Vieu's mode estimator
skewness

Skewness