Mainflux.mainflux/vendor/github.com/montanaflynn/stats/mode.go

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package stats
// Mode gets the mode [most frequent value(s)] of a slice of float64s
func Mode(input Float64Data) (mode []float64, err error) {
// Return the input if there's only one number
l := input.Len()
if l == 1 {
return input, nil
} else if l == 0 {
return nil, EmptyInputErr
}
c := sortedCopyDif(input)
// Traverse sorted array,
// tracking the longest repeating sequence
mode = make([]float64, 5)
cnt, maxCnt := 1, 1
for i := 1; i < l; i++ {
switch {
case c[i] == c[i-1]:
cnt++
case cnt == maxCnt && maxCnt != 1:
mode = append(mode, c[i-1])
cnt = 1
case cnt > maxCnt:
mode = append(mode[:0], c[i-1])
maxCnt, cnt = cnt, 1
default:
cnt = 1
}
}
switch {
case cnt == maxCnt:
mode = append(mode, c[l-1])
case cnt > maxCnt:
mode = append(mode[:0], c[l-1])
maxCnt = cnt
}
// Since length must be greater than 1,
// check for slices of distinct values
if maxCnt == 1 || len(mode)*maxCnt == l && maxCnt != l {
return Float64Data{}, nil
}
return mode, nil
}