Return a list of the most frequently occurring values. Will return more than one result if there are multiple modes or an empty list if *data* is empty. >>> multimode('aabbbbbbbbcc') ['b'] >>> multimode('aabbbbccddddeeffffgg') ['b', 'd', 'f'] >>> multimode('') []
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| 495 | |
| 496 | |
| 497 | def multimode(data): |
| 498 | """Return a list of the most frequently occurring values. |
| 499 | |
| 500 | Will return more than one result if there are multiple modes |
| 501 | or an empty list if *data* is empty. |
| 502 | |
| 503 | >>> multimode('aabbbbbbbbcc') |
| 504 | ['b'] |
| 505 | >>> multimode('aabbbbccddddeeffffgg') |
| 506 | ['b', 'd', 'f'] |
| 507 | >>> multimode('') |
| 508 | [] |
| 509 | |
| 510 | """ |
| 511 | counts = Counter(iter(data)) |
| 512 | if not counts: |
| 513 | return [] |
| 514 | maxcount = max(counts.values()) |
| 515 | return [value for value, count in counts.items() if count == maxcount] |
| 516 | |
| 517 | |
| 518 | ## Measures of spread ###################################################### |
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