Include IF statement in most frequent text formula

**Aggrimm** · 11-04-2009, 03:25 PM

Hi,

I have one column of sample numbers and another column of tree species (text values). There are a lot of trees for each sample number. I need to find the most common tree species for each sample number. So I have this formula to find the most frequently occurring tree species for all samples:

=INDEX(B:B,MATCH(MAX(COUNTIF(B:B,B:B)),COUNTIF(B:B,B:B),0))

and that works. Is there a way to modify the formula to find the most frequent text value for only those rows of B where the value of column A equals 1,2,3, etc?

Thank you!!

**daddylonglegs** · 11-04-2009, 03:46 PM

Try a formula like this

=INDEX(B1:B100,MODE(IF(A1:A100=2,IF(B1:B100<>"",MATCH(B1:B100,B1:B100,0)))))

confirmed with CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER

You need to use a specific range rather than the whole column....

**Aggrimm** · 11-04-2009, 08:00 PM

AWESOME this is exactly what I was trying to do.

**enphynity** · 01-29-2014, 03:09 PM

I am trying to do the same thing but the check data is text. Is there another way to write the formula to work with text since 'mode' is only for numbers?

**FDibbins** · 01-29-2014, 03:12 PM

enphynity...
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