How to find out which item is mode of cell array?
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I have a cell array. I want to find the most repeated item in that cell. for example in this array: {'apple','lemon','apple','peach'} I need a code or function that detects which word('apple') is the most repeated in this cell array. like 'mode' function for numeric arrays.
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Daniel Shub
on 22 May 2011
Assuming that all the elements in your array are strings
x = {'apple','lemon','apple','peach'};
y = unique(x);
n = zeros(length(y), 1);
for iy = 1:length(y)
n(iy) = length(find(strcmp(y{iy}, x)));
end
[~, itemp] = max(n);
y(itemp)
If they are not all strings, you can replace strcmp with isequal.
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