modal duration
English translation: most common length
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| 4 +3 | the most common trial length is 10 weeks |
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peer agreement (net): +3the most common trial length is 10 weeks Explanation: "In statistics, the mode is the value that occurs most frequently in a data set or a probability distribution." From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_(statistics) -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2012-03-01 10:44:45 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- So if, of the 17 trials, 10 had a length of 10 weeks that would be the mode. |
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