categorycounting.qmd

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# General

-   **Type:** - Matrix Processing
-   **Heading:** - Annot. columns
-   **Source code:** [CategoryCounting.cs](https://github.com/JurgenCox/perseus-plugins/blob/master/PerseusPluginLib/AnnotCols/CategoryCounting.cs)

# Brief description

For each term in a categorical column one counts the number of occurrences.

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# Parameters

## Categories

Selected categorical columns for which the absolute and relative occurrence of each term gets counted and displayed in two newly generated numerical columns called "Count" and "Percentage of total" (default: all categorical columns are selected).

## Min. count

Minimal occurrence of a certain term to be displayed in the output table (default: 1).

## Selection

Selected categorical column in which the "Value" will be searched and counted for each term in the "Categories" field specified categorical columns (default: <None>). Two new numerical columns called "Selection count" and "Selection percentage" are generated in the output table containing the absolute and relative amounts.

## Value

Defines the value that is searched in the categorical column specified in "Selection" (default: +).

# Parameter window

![](images/annot.columns-category_counting-edited.png)