FreqDist()

Version 1.1 and Later

Usage

FreqDist(listobject)

• Returns a frequency distribution for a list as a dictionary.
• listobject must be a list type object consisting of any objects that can be assigned as dictionary key.

Examples

>>> from pydoodles import FreqDist
>>> FreqDist([1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 6])
{1: 1, 2: 1, 3: 2, 4: 3, 5: 2, 6: 1}
>>> FreqDist(['Massachusetts', 'Massachusetts', 'Pennsylvania', 'Vermont', 'Massachusetts', 'Maine', 'California', 'Minnesota', 'North Carolina', 'Pennsylvania', 'California', 'New York', 'Connecticut', 'Massachusetts', 'Virginia', 'Iowa', 'New York', 'California', 'Maine', 'New York'])
{'Minnesota': 1, 'Vermont': 1, 'Virginia': 1, 'North Carolina': 1, 'Massachusetts': 4, 'California': 3, 'New York': 3, 'Pennsylvania': 2, 'Maine': 2, 'Connecticut': 1, 'Iowa': 1}
>>> FreqDist(['East', 'East', 'East', 'East', 'East', 'East', 'West', 'Midwest', 'South', 'East', 'West', 'East', 'East', 'East', 'South', 'Midwest', 'East', 'West', 'East', 'East'])
{'East': 13, 'South': 2, 'Midwest': 2, 'West': 3}