The MODE function has no built-in way to apply criteria. Given a range, it will return the most frequently occurring number in that range. To apply criteria, we use the IF function inside MODE to filter values in a range. In this example, the IF...
Working from the inside out, the MATCH function matches the range against itself. That is, we give the MATCH function the same range for lookup value and lookup array (B5:F5). Because the lookup value contains more than one value (an array), MATCH...
The core of this formula is the MODE function, which returns the most frequently occurring number in a range or array. The rest of the formula just constructs a filtered array for MODE to use in each row. The expanding range $D$4:D4 works to exclude...
The Excel MODE function returns the most frequently occurring number in a numeric data set. For example, =MODE(1,2,4,4,5,5,5,6) returns 5.
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