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BJP3 Exercise 11.15: maxOccurrences

Language/Type: Java Collections Sets and Maps
Author: Jeff Prouty (on 2013/04/01)

Write a method maxOccurrences that accepts a List of integers as a parameter and returns the number of times the most frequently occurring integer (the "mode") occurs in the list. Solve this problem using a Map as auxiliary storage. If the list is empty, return 0.

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This is a method problem. Write a Java method as described. Do not write a complete program or class; just the method(s) above.

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