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Madlen Hoffstadt¹, Lourens Waldorp¹, Javier Garcia-Bernardo²

¹Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

The British journal of mathematical and statistical psychology

|February 19, 2026

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Presentamos ReMoDe, un nuevo método recursivo de detección de modalidad para datos ordinales. ReMoDe identifica con precisión los modos en las distribuciones, superando a los métodos existentes en simulaciones.

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bimodalidad detección de modalidad multimodalidad datos ordinales detección de picos

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Área de la Ciencia:

Estadística
Análisis de Datos

Sus antecedentes:

La detección de modos en datos ordinales es crucial para disciplinas como la psicología y la medicina.
Los métodos existentes para la detección de modalidad son a menudo descriptivos o inadecuados para datos ordinales.

Objetivo del estudio:

Proponer un nuevo método recursivo de detección de modalidad (ReMoDe) para distribuciones ordinales univariadas.
Abordar las limitaciones de los métodos actuales cuando se aplican a escalas ordinales.

Principales métodos:

Se desarrolló un enfoque recursivo de prueba de significancia para la detección de modos.
Se realizó un estudio comparativo utilizando 172 conjuntos de datos ordinales simulados de diversos tamaños.
Se realizaron pruebas de estabilidad y se calcularon valores p y factores de Bayes para los modos detectados.

Principales resultados:

ReMoDe demostró un rendimiento superior en comparación con los métodos establecidos de detección de modalidad en simulaciones.
El método proporciona medidas estadísticas (valores p, factores de Bayes) para los modos detectados.
Hay paquetes R y Python de código abierto disponibles para una fácil implementación.

Conclusiones:

ReMoDe ofrece una solución robusta y precisa para la detección de modalidad en datos ordinales.
El método mejora el análisis de las distribuciones, ayudando a los investigadores a identificar patrones como la polarización o los grupos de incidencia.