The Modal Age of Statistics

Recently, a number of statistical problems have found an unexpected solution by inspecting them through a ‘modal point of view'. These include classical tasks such as clustering or regression. This has led to a renewed interest in estimation and inference for the mode. This paper offers an extensive survey of the traditional approaches to mode estimation and explores the consequences of applying this modern modal methodology to other, seemingly unrelated, fields.

• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  International Statistical Review

• Publication date

  2018-07-08

• Fields of study

  Mathematics, Computer Science

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  DOI 10.1111/insr.12340arXiv 1807.02789
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