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 cats = ['Tom','Fluffy','Tom','Bella','Chloe','Tom','Chloe'];
var counts = {};
var compare = 0;
var mostFrequent;
(function(array){
   for(var i = 0, len = array.length; i < len; i++){
       var word = array[i];

       if(counts[word] === undefined){
           counts[word] = 1;
       }else{
           counts[word] = counts[word] + 1;
       }
       if(counts[word] > compare){
             compare = counts[word];
             mostFrequent = cats[i];
       }
    }
  return mostFrequent;
})(cats);