pandas.Series.min¶

Series.min(axis=None, skipna=None, level=None, numeric_only=None, **kwargs)[source]¶

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.
skipnabool, default True: Exclude NA/null values when computing the result.
levelint or level name, default None: If the axis is a MultiIndex (hierarchical), count along a particular level, collapsing into a scalar.
numeric_onlybool, default None: Include only float, int, boolean columns. If None, will attempt to use everything, then use only numeric data. Not implemented for Series.
**kwargs: Additional keyword arguments to be passed to the function.

Returns

scalar or Series (if level specified)

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

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