Get the element with the highest occurrence in an array

Question

I\'m looking for an elegant way of determining which element has the highest occurrence (mode) in a JavaScript array.

For example, in

[\'pear\', \'a         


        

Answer 1

var array = [1, 3, 6, 6, 6, 6, 7, 7, 12, 12, 17],
    c = {}, // counters
    s = []; // sortable array

for (var i=0; i