pandas.DataFrame.idxmin — pandas 0.24.0rc1 documentation (original) (raw)

DataFrame. idxmin(axis=0, skipna=True)[source]

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

Notes

This method is the DataFrame version of ndarray.argmin.