I was sure this was the etymology, but apparently "mode" in statistics is quite a modern use, from a work by Pearson in 1895 in English. Whether he was influenc

I was sure this was the etymology, but apparently "mode" in statistics is quite a modern use, from a work by Pearson in 1895 in English. Whether he was influenced by the Romance languages is not clear, but there certainly isn't a direct path from Latin or French as one might have expected. https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/7675/what-is-the-etymology-of-the-term-mode-in-statistics https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/7675/what-is-the-ety...