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 Proportions

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Get the proportion of times that each distinct element appears in a list

Contributed by: Richard Hennigan (Wolfram Research)

ResourceFunction["Proportions"][list]

gives an association whose keys are the distinct elements of list, and whose values give the proportion of times those elements appear in list.

Details and Options

ResourceFunction["Proportions"][list] gives an association whose keys are in the same order as they first occur as elements of list.
ResourceFunction["Proportions"] also works with heads other than List.
When given an Association, ResourceFunction["Proportions"] uses the Values of the association as input.

Examples

Basic Examples (4) 

Find the proportions of times that each element appears in a list:

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ResourceFunction["Proportions"][{a, b, c, a}]
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Use with an Association:

In[2]:=
ResourceFunction["Proportions"][<|a -> x, b -> y, c -> z, d -> y|>]
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See how common each character is in a body of text:

In[3]:=
ResourceFunction["Proportions"][ Characters[ResourceData["Gettysburg Address"]]] // ReverseSort // N
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Check for common words:

In[4]:=
p = TakeLargest[ N[ResourceFunction["Proportions"][ TextWords[ResourceData["On the Origin of Species"]]]], 20]
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In[5]:=
BarChart[Reverse[p], ChartLabels -> Automatic, BarOrigin -> Left]
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Visualize in a WordCloud:

In[6]:=
WordCloud[p]
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Properties and Relations (1) 

Proportions is similar to Counts:

In[7]:=
ResourceFunction["Proportions"][{a, b, c, a}]
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In[8]:=
Counts[{a, b, c, a}]
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In[9]:=
%/4
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Requirements

Wolfram Language 11.3 (March 2018) or above

Version History

  • 1.0.0 – 28 March 2019

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