Maximum occurrence of a number

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Bless
Bless on 11 Feb 2013
I have a row vector and some of the elements may same. How to get the value which is maximum in numbers?
For Eg:
V=[1 2 3 4 1 1 1 2]
I want a resultant value from V which should result me '1'. Since 1 occurs 4 times(maximum) in this vector. How to do this in matlab??

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Jos (10584)
Jos (10584) on 11 Feb 2013
The value that occurs most is called the mode. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_(statistics)
This function is available in MatLab:
a = [1 2 3 4 5 2 6 2]
mode(a)
% ans = 2

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Jan
Jan on 11 Feb 2013
Edited: Jan on 11 Feb 2013
You can find such solutions by asking your favorite search engine, e.g.:
Asking for "Matlab maximum occurence of a number" is less successful, but one of the first hits forwards to "doc mode" also.
Please do not get me wrong: All Matlab related questions are welcome here (and only a tiny part is not worth to be answered), but it is more efficient for you and the answerers of this forum, if you try to find a solution by your own at first.

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