Majority vote

A function to compute the majority vote (some would say plurality) label in a vector of labels, breaking ties at random.

Usage

majorityVote(x)

Arguments

x

A vector of values, either numerical or not.

Value

A list with the following components:

table

A table of votes for each unique value of x.

ind

An integer specifying which unique value of x corresponds to the majority vote.

majority

A string specifying the majority vote label.

Author

L. Scrucca

Examples

x <- c("A", "C", "A", "B", "C", "B", "A")
majorityVote(x)
#> $table
#> x
#> A B C 
#> 3 2 2 
#> 
#> $ind
#> [1] 1
#> 
#> $majority
#> [1] "A"
#>