tabul — frequency of values of a matrix or vector
[m]=tabul(X [,order])
vector or matrix (of real or complex numbers or strings)
(optionnal) a character equal to "d" or "i" (default value "d")
a 2 columns matrix (if X is a numerical vector or matrix) or
a list with 2 members (if X is a string vector or matrix).
This function computes the frequency of values of
the components of a vector or matrix X of numbers or
string characters :
then m is a two column matrix who contains in
the first column the distinct values of X
and in the other column the number of occurrences
of those values (m(i,2) is the number of occurrences
of m(i,1)).
then m is a list whose first member is a
string (column) vector composed with the distinct
values of X and the second member is a
(column) vector whose components are the number of
occurrences of those values ( m(i)(2) is the number
of occurrences of the string m(i)(1) ).
The optional parameter order must be "d" or "i" (by default
order="d") and gives the order (decreasing or increasing) the distinct
values of X will be sorted.
// first example
X = [2 8 0 3 7 6 8 7 9 1 6 7 7 2 5 2 2 2 9 7]
m1 = tabul(X)
m2 = tabul(X, "i")
// second example
X = ["ba" "baba" "a" "A" "AA" "a" "aa" "aa" "aa" "A" "ba"]
m = tabul(X,"i")
// third example
n = 50000;
X = grand(n,1,"bin",70,0.5);
m = tabul(X,"i");
clf()
plot2d3(m(:,1), m(:,2)/n)
xtitle("empirical probabilities of B(70,0.5)")
// last example : computes the occurrences of words of the scilab license
text = read(SCI+"/license.txt",-1,1,"(A)"); // read the scilab license
bigstr = strcat(text," "); // put all the lines in a big string
sep = [" " "," "." ";" "*" ":" "-" """"]; // words separators
words = tokens(bigstr, sep); // cut the big string into words
m = tabul(words); // computes occurrences of each word
[occ , p] = gsort(m(2)); // sort by decreasing frequencies
results = [m(1)(p) string(occ)] // display result