MATLAB: How to get the frequency of a column of values

Question

I have a column of data containing the study year of the sampling stations:

1950
1953 
1953
1953
1957
1957
1959
1959
1959
1959
...

I want to plot something like histogram myself.

How do I get a two column data, with the left column containing all the possible years, and the right column containing their frequencies?

1950, 1
1953, 3
1957, 2
1959, 4

Thanks.

Answer 1

table = tabulate(A); % where A is your data
% if you want exactly the way you said
table(:,3) = [];