pandas.DataFrame.idxmin

DataFrame.idxmin(axis=0, skipna=True)

Return index of first occurrence of minimum over requested axis. NA/null values are excluded.

Parameters:

axis : {0 or ‘index’, 1 or ‘columns’}, default 0

0 or ‘index’ for row-wise, 1 or ‘columns’ for column-wise

skipna : boolean, default True

Exclude NA/null values. If an entire row/column is NA, the result will be NA.

Returns:

idxmin : Series

Raises:

ValueError

• If the row/column is empty

See also

Series.idxmin

Notes

This method is the DataFrame version of ndarray.argmin.