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Commonest

Commonest[list]
gives a list of the elements that are the most common in list.

Commonest[list, n]
gives a list of the n most common elements in list.

When several elements occur with equal frequency, Commonest[list, ...] picks first the ones that occur first in list.

Commonest[list, n] returns the n commonest elements in the order they appear in list.

Obtain the elements with the highest frequency:

Obtain the 4 most common elements:

Obtain the elements with the highest frequency:

Obtain the 4 most common elements:

Elements of the list can be any expressions:

Find the mode of a set of random integers:

Find the most frequently occurring elements in the columns of a matrix:

Commonest gives elements with the largest Tally values:

A message is generated if there are fewer distinct elements than requested: