Find most common occurrence and display it.

[dad2sdt]

Hi Community,

Been trying to figure this out all morning. I have a range of data, with column headers. I have computed values based on certain criteria in a range of cells Similar to the following: Lets call it clothing items.

Mon 400
Tue 300
Wed 6
Thur 7
Fri 50

I have computed this with the following formula: =COUNTIFS(Data!AN:AN,B9,Data!AI:AI,"Mon",Data!Z:Z,"SpecificText",Data!AQ:AQ,"AlternateText") replacing Tue, Wed...for Mon on each row. With this, I can see that I have sold 400 items on Monday, 300 on Tuesday...

Now out of those values, I want to display the most common occurrence of what made up that 763 items. I was trying to, unsuccessfully with the following formula based on some searches but I cannot figure it out. The goal is for Cell E26 to display the word Shirts, Pants, Shoes, based on if that is the most common thing sold that week. The item sold is in column AH of which I am trying to figure out which was sold most.

Cell E26: =INDEX(Data!AH:AH, 10000*MOD(MAX(COUNTIF(Data!AH2:AH1000000,Data!AH2:AH1000000)+(ROW(Data!AH2:AH1000000)/10000)),1), 1)

Any ideas welcomed.

Jeff

Jeff

 

[Eric W]

It would have been helpful if you could have displayed an example of your sheets. Nevertheless, I tried to create a small sample derived from your formulas.

Book1
	A	B	C	D	E	F	Z	AH	AI	AN	AQ
1
2	Mon	2		Most Common			SpecificText	Pants	Mon	x	AlternateText
3	Tue	3		Shoes			SpecificText	Shirts	Mon	x	AlternateText
4	Wed	2					SpecificText	Pants	Mon	x
5	Thur	1					SpecificText	Pants	Tue	x	AlternateText
6	Fri	3					SpecificText	Shoes	Tue	x	AlternateText
7								Shoes	Tue	x	AlternateText
8								Belts		x	AlternateText
9		x					SpecificText	Shoes	Tue	x	AlternateText
10							SpecificText	Shoes	Wed	x	AlternateText
11							SpecificText	Shirts	Wed		AlternateText
12							SpecificText	Shoes	Wed	x	AlternateText
13							SpecificText	Pants	Wed	x
14							SpecificText	Belts	Thur	x	AlternateText
15							SpecificText	Pants	Fri		AlternateText
16							SpecificText	Pants	Fri	x	AlternateText
17							SpecificText	Shirts	Fri	x	AlternateText
18								Pants		x	AlternateText
19							SpecificText	Shoes	Fri	x	AlternateText
Data

Cell Formulas
Range	Formula
D3	{=INDEX(Data!$AH$2:$AH$1000,MODE(IF(ISNUMBER(MATCH(Data!$AI$2:$AI$1000,{"Mon","Tue","Wed","Thur","Fri"},0)),IF($Z$2:$Z$1000="SpecificText",IF($AQ$2:$AQ$1000="AlternateText",IF($AN$2:$AN$1000=B9,IFERROR(MATCH($AH$2:$AH$1000,$AH$2:$AH$1000,0),"")))))))}
Press CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER to enter array formulas.

If this is close, then you can use the D3 formula to find the most common item type. You'll need to adjust the formula for your sheets.

 

[dad2sdt]

Thanks, Eric. I will play around with this over the next day or so and post back with real world data/progress.