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 MetaTally

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Combine multiple tally results

Contributed by: David Gathercole

ResourceFunction["MetaTally"][{t1,t2,…}]

combines the counts of multiple tally results ti.

ResourceFunction["MetaTally"][{t1,t2,…},f]

applies f to the list of counts of each given element, where by default these lists are totaled.

Details and Options

By way of an extension, ResourceFunction["MetaTally"] combines all but the first element of the second-level lists.
The default aggregation function is Total.

Examples

Basic Examples (2) 

MetaTally combines multiple tallies:

In[1]:=
ResourceFunction["MetaTally"][{Tally[{1, 1, 1, 2}], Tally[{1, 2, 2}]}]
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Analogous to the Tally of the combined lists:

In[2]:=
Tally[Join[{1, 1, 1, 2}, {1, 2, 2}]]
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Allowing work with intermediate tallies:

In[3]:=
catGenderTally = Tally[{"F", "F", "F", "F", "F", "M", "M", "M"}]
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In[4]:=
dogGenderTally = Tally[{"M", "M", "M", "M", "F"}]
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In[5]:=
ResourceFunction["MetaTally"][{catGenderTally, dogGenderTally}]
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Scope (2) 

The argument lists are compared on their first elements:

In[6]:=
ResourceFunction["MetaTally"][{ {{{"crane", "noun"}, 2}, {{"crane", "verb"}, 2}, {{"hack", "verb"}, 7}}, {{{"crane", "verb"}, 3}, {{"hack", "noun"}, 5}} }]
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The aggregation is performed on the rest of the elements:

In[7]:=
ResourceFunction["MetaTally"][{ {{"crane", 2, 0}, {"crane", 0, 2}, {"hack", 0, 7}}, {{"crane", 0, 3}, {"hack", 5, 0}} }] // TableForm
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The function for aggregation can be specified:

In[8]:=
ResourceFunction["MetaTally"][{ {{"a", 0.3}, {"b", 0.6}, {"c", 0.1}}, {{"a", 0.5}, {"b", 0.5}} }, Max] // TableForm
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In[9]:=
ResourceFunction["MetaTally"][{ {{"a", 0.3}, {"b", 0.6}, {"c", 0.1}}, {{"a", 0.5}, {"b", 0.5}} }, Apply[Times, #] &]
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Properties and Relations (1) 

The default aggregation function is Total:

In[10]:=
ResourceFunction["MetaTally"][{ {{"a", 0.3}, {"b", 0.6}, {"c", 0.1}}, {{"a", 0.5}, {"b", 0.5}} }]
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ResourceFunction["MetaTally"][{ {{"a", 0.3}, {"b", 0.6}, {"c", 0.1}}, {{"a", 0.5}, {"b", 0.5}} }, Total]
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Publisher

David Gathercole

Version History

  • 1.0.0 – 28 June 2019

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