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Determine Most/Least Frequent Date from List

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bpc

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Jul 29, 2009, 11:45:01 AM7/29/09
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I have a list of events (Column A) and dates of events (Column B). I would
like to determine the most frequent and least frequent dates from the list.
No VBA please.

My current partial solution includes a pivot table in an adjacent worksheet
(sorted in descending order) which performs a count of the dates. I then
reference the "top cell" of the pivot table to determine the maximum date as
this cell location does not change. How can I reference lowest or bottom
number as that cell reference will regularly change?
Or, am I making this far to difficult?
Thanks in advance,
BPC


Mike H

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Jul 29, 2009, 11:54:01 AM7/29/09
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Hi,


=MODE(A1:A20)
will find the most frequent date

>How can I reference lowest or bottom
> number as that cell reference will regularly change?
> Or, am I making this far to difficult?

Not too difficult but not clear exaclty what you want.

Mike

bpc

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Jul 29, 2009, 2:44:00 PM7/29/09
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Mike,

Thanks, the mode function (inserted in C1) will work, for the date
(01/01/09) with the highest number off calls. Now I am looking for a
calculation for c2 to return the date with the lowest number of calls
(01/05/09 in my example).
A B C
001 01/01/09 Day w/ highest number of calls
002 01/01/09 Day w/ lowest number of calls
003 01/03/09
004 01/03/09
005 01/05/09

Thanks,

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