- TIBCO BusinessEvents®
- Standard
- Temporal
- Statistic

# Temporal.Statistic.numMatchOverLast()

## Signature

`int numMatchOverLast(PropertyAtom pa, Object matchValue, int last_n_times)`

## Domain

ACTION, CONDITION, QUERY, BUI

## Description

This method counts the number of object which matches a specified value over the last n history entries.

## Parameters

Name | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
`pa` | `PropertyAtom` | The target property.
`matchValue` | `Object` | The object whose value is to be matched.
`last_n_times` | `int` | The number of last history entry to match.

## Returns

Type | Description
--- | ---
`int` | Number of history value which match the specified value.

## Cautions

none