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What is the best way to calculate the mode (central tendency measure) from an unpivoted column of numerical data (e.g., Likert response values) in Power BI?
Thanks,
Russ
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@russm perhaps the solution offered on this article.
Mode := MINX ( TOPN ( 1, ADDCOLUMNS ( VALUES ( Data[Value] ), "Frequency", CALCULATE ( COUNT ( Data[Value] ) ) ), [Frequency], 0 ), Data[Value] )
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@russm perhaps the solution offered on this article.
Mode := MINX ( TOPN ( 1, ADDCOLUMNS ( VALUES ( Data[Value] ), "Frequency", CALCULATE ( COUNT ( Data[Value] ) ) ), [Frequency], 0 ), Data[Value] )
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Hi KHorseman, I am new to the Power BI Community forum and not sure if this is correct etiquette or not to reply to this post. Please let me know if not. I found this post in my search to calculate 'Mode'. But when I use the solution, I get an error "Function ADDCOLUMNS expects a column name as argument number 4."
Are you able to shed any light on where I have gone wrong please?
It worked
Thank you very much
Perfect!
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