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# pandas.Series.min

Series.min(axis=0, skipna=True, numeric_only=False, **kwargs)

  Return the minimum of the values over the requested axis.

  If you want the index of the minimum, use `idxmin`. This is the equivalent of the `numpy.ndarray` method `argmin`.

  Parameters:
    axis{index (0)}

      Axis for the function to be applied on. For Series this parameter is unused and defaults to 0.

      For DataFrames, specifying `axis=None` will apply the aggregation across both axes.

      Added in version 2.0.0.

    skipnabool, default True

      Exclude NA/null values when computing the result.

    numeric_onlybool, default False

      Include only float, int, boolean columns. Not implemented for Series.

    **kwargs

      Additional keyword arguments to be passed to the function.

  Returns:
    scalar or scalar

  See also

  `Series.sum`

    Return the sum.

  `Series.min`

    Return the minimum.

  `Series.max`

    Return the maximum.

  `Series.idxmin`

    Return the index of the minimum.

  `Series.idxmax`

    Return the index of the maximum.

  `DataFrame.sum`

    Return the sum over the requested axis.

  `DataFrame.min`

    Return the minimum over the requested axis.

  `DataFrame.max`

    Return the maximum over the requested axis.

  `DataFrame.idxmin`

    Return the index of the minimum over the requested axis.

  `DataFrame.idxmax`

    Return the index of the maximum over the requested axis.

  Examples

      >>> idx = pd.MultiIndex.from_arrays([
      ...     ['warm', 'warm', 'cold', 'cold'],
      ...     ['dog', 'falcon', 'fish', 'spider']],
      ...     names=['blooded', 'animal'])
      >>> s = pd.Series([4, 2, 0, 8], name='legs', index=idx)
      >>> s
      blooded  animal
      warm     dog       4
               falcon    2
      cold     fish      0
               spider    8
      Name: legs, dtype: int64

      >>> s.min()
      0