Mode Aggregation

A single-value metrics aggregation that computes the mode of numeric values that are extracted from the aggregated documents.

The mode of a set of data values is the value that appears most often, in other words, it is the value that is most likely to be sampled. 1

Type Description Example Result
Mean (or !verage) Sum of values of a data set divided by number of values (1+2+2+3+4+7+9) / 7 4
Median Middle value separating the greater and lesser halves of a data set 1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9 3
Mode Most frequent value in a data set 1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9 2
SEARCH /bank/
{
  "_query": "*",
  "_limit": 0,
  "_check_at_least": 1000,
  "_aggs": {
    "balance_mode": {
      "_mode": {
        "_field": "balance"
      }
    }
  }
}

1 Mode (statistics)