Tell us what’s happening:
From my understanding, if I return a a-b in a sort’s callback function. it will return in an ascending order. If I return b-a, then it’ll return a descending order. It didn’t do that for my case.
I did what the instructions say which is to return a counts[b] - counts[a] and access the first element of the array which is highest[0].
Let me know what I’m doing wrong and how I can improve upon it.
Your code so far
<!-- file: index.html -->
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="./styles.css" />
<script src="./script.js"></script>
<title>Statistics Calculator</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Statistics Calculator</h1>
<p>Enter a list of comma-separated numbers.</p>
<form onsubmit="calculate(); return false;">
<label for="numbers">Numbers:</label>
<input type="text" name="numbers" id="numbers" />
<button type="submit">Calculate</button>
</form>
<div class="results">
<p>
The <dfn>mean</dfn> of a list of numbers is the average, calculated by
taking the sum of all numbers and dividing that by the count of numbers.
</p>
<p class="bold">Mean: <span id="mean"></span></p>
<p>
The <dfn>median</dfn> of a list of numbers is the number that appears in
the middle of the list, when sorted from least to greatest.
</p>
<p class="bold">Median: <span id="median"></span></p>
<p>
The <dfn>mode</dfn> of a list of numbers is the number that appears most
often in the list.
</p>
<p class="bold">Mode: <span id="mode"></span></p>
<p>
The <dfn>range</dfn> of a list of numbers is the difference between the
largest and smallest numbers in the list.
</p>
<p class="bold">Range: <span id="range"></span></p>
<p>
The <dfn>variance</dfn> of a list of numbers measures how far the values
are from the mean, on average.
</p>
<p class="bold">Variance: <span id="variance"></span></p>
<p>
The <dfn>standard deviation</dfn> of a list of numbers is the square
root of the variance.
</p>
<p class="bold">
Standard Deviation: <span id="standardDeviation"></span>
</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
/* file: styles.css */
body {
margin: 0;
background-color: rgb(27, 27, 50);
text-align: center;
color: #fff;
}
button {
cursor: pointer;
background-color: rgb(59, 59, 79);
border: 3px solid white;
color: white;
}
input {
background-color: rgb(10, 10, 35);
color: white;
border: 1px solid rgb(59, 59, 79);
}
.bold {
font-weight: bold;
}
/* file: script.js */
const getMean = (array) => array.reduce((acc, el) => acc + el, 0) / array.length;
const getMedian = (array) => {
const sorted = array.sort((a, b) => a - b);
const median =
array.length % 2 === 0
? getMean([sorted[array.length / 2], sorted[array.length / 2 - 1]])
: sorted[Math.floor(array.length / 2)];
return median;
}
// User Editable Region
const getMode = (array) => {
const counts = {};
array.forEach((el) => {
counts[el] = (counts[el] || 0) + 1;
})
if (new Set(Object.values(counts)).size === 1) {
return null;
}
const highest = Object.keys(counts).sort((a,b) => (counts[b] - counts[a])
//counts[a] - counts[b]
);
return highest[0];
}
console.log(getMode([1,4,2,4,5,2,]))
// User Editable Region
const calculate = () => {
const value = document.querySelector("#numbers").value;
const array = value.split(/,\s*/g);
const numbers = array.map(el => Number(el)).filter(el => !isNaN(el));
const mean = getMean(numbers);
const median = getMedian(numbers);
document.querySelector("#mean").textContent = mean;
document.querySelector("#median").textContent = median;
}
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Challenge Information:
Learn Advanced Array Methods by Building a Statistics Calculator - Step 35