pandas.core.groupby.SeriesGroupBy.idxmin — pandas 3.0.0.dev0+2097.gcdc5b7418e documentation (original) (raw)

SeriesGroupBy.idxmin(skipna=True)[source]#

Return the row label of the minimum value.

If multiple values equal the minimum, the first row label with that value is returned.

Parameters:

skipnabool, default True

Exclude NA values.

Returns:

Series

Indexes of minima in each group.

Raises:

ValueError

If the Series is empty or skipna=False and any value is NA.

See also

numpy.argmin

Return indices of the minimum values along the given axis.

DataFrame.idxmin

Return index of first occurrence of minimum over requested axis.

Series.idxmax

Return index label of the first occurrence of maximum of values.

Examples

ser = pd.Series( ... [1, 2, 3, 4], ... index=pd.DatetimeIndex( ... ["2023-01-01", "2023-01-15", "2023-02-01", "2023-02-15"] ... ), ... ) ser 2023-01-01 1 2023-01-15 2 2023-02-01 3 2023-02-15 4 dtype: int64

ser.groupby(["a", "a", "b", "b"]).idxmin() a 2023-01-01 b 2023-02-01 dtype: datetime64[s]