find minimum

[Colleen Parks]

Only 4--so I could definitely do that.  It just seems like there should be a more efficient way--something akin to excel's MIN() and MAX () functions.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Fredrik Ullén 
  To: eprime at mail.talkbank.org 
  Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 11:18 AM
  Subject: Re: find minimum


  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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    Colleen Parks, Ph.D.
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  Fredrik Ullén
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  Stockholm Brain Institute
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