.. highlightlang:: us

.. _maxi:

maxi
====

.. index:: maxi

.. us.tag  maxi ENGLISH

:ref:`maxi` finds the index of the largest
element of a vector or returns an index vector with indices of the
largest element of each matrix column.

.. function::  r = maxi(m)

.. us.return

**Return Value**

*r* is a scalar, if *m* is a vector. *r* is a row vector if
*m* is a matrix. The column vector contains indices of the largest
element of each matrix column.

.. us.params

**Parameters**

.. uparam:: m

   *m* is a real, complex or string matrix.

.. us.comment

**Comment**

For complex matrices *m*, the function compares the
absolute values.

.. seealso::
   :ref:`overview-mathematic`,
   :ref:`mini`,
   :ref:`max`

:sub:`id-529432`