find minimum

[Fredrik Ullén]

Hi Colleen,
Why not just write a brief Inline script to loop through the array and find 
the smallest value?
How many values do you have?
Best
Fredrik
At 20:01 2006-06-28, Colleen Parks wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I've got an array to which I've assigned a list of random numbers (e.g., 
>Array(0) = random(0,100)).  I need to find which element/array position 
>has the lowest value without sorting the array (position in the array is 
>important for another variable later on).  I've spent a good amount of 
>time searching to figure out what the code is to find the minimum value of 
>a list of variables, but haven't found anything yet.  There is no obvious 
>documentation of a general "find min" and "find max" function outside of 
>the summation object. (Note that a summation object won't help because it 
>will return the minimum of a set of values, but will not, as far as I can 
>tell, indicate which variable (or observation) the minimum value is linked 
>to).  There's got to be a find min/max ability in there somewhere!  Can 
>anyone point me in the right direction?
>
>Thanks!
>Colleen
>
>
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>Psychology Department
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Fredrik Ullén
Associate Professor
Stockholm Brain Institute
Dept Woman and Child Health
Neuropediatric Research Unit (ALB, Q2:07)
Karolinska Institutet
SE-171 76 Stockholm
Sweden
personal web page www.fredrikullen.com
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