Merge pull request #6592 from sriki18/master

DOC: Replace 'first' by 'smallest' in mode
scipy · Sep 18, 2016 · 3ffb810 · 3ffb810
2 parents 5a18a3a + b76659b
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diff --git a/scipy/stats/stats.py b/scipy/stats/stats.py
@@ -378,7 +378,7 @@ def mode(a, axis=0, nan_policy='propagate'):
     """
     Returns an array of the modal (most common) value in the passed array.
 
-    If there is more than one such value, only the first is returned.
+    If there is more than one such value, only the smallest is returned.
     The bin-count for the modal bins is also returned.
 
     Parameters