Minor code and comment cleanup (GH-16315) (GH-16316)

(cherry picked from commit 7ce4bfa8cf)

Co-authored-by: Raymond Hettinger <rhettinger@users.noreply.github.com>
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Miss Islington (bot) 2019-09-20 22:18:10 -07:00 committed by Raymond Hettinger
parent 9f3dcf802e
commit 8fe4755aa3

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@ -555,8 +555,9 @@ def mode(data):
"""
data = iter(data)
pairs = Counter(data).most_common(1)
try:
return Counter(data).most_common(1)[0][0]
return pairs[0][0]
except IndexError:
raise StatisticsError('no mode for empty data') from None
@ -602,6 +603,7 @@ def multimode(data):
# mean=0.300. Only the latter (which corresponds with R6) gives the
# desired cut point with 30% of the population falling below that
# value, making it comparable to a result from an inv_cdf() function.
# The R6 exclusive method is also idempotent.
# For describing population data where the end points are known to
# be included in the data, the R7 inclusive method is a reasonable