biom.table.Table.max¶

Table.max(axis='sample')¶

Get the maximum nonzero value over an axis

Parameters:	axis : {‘sample’, ‘observation’, ‘whole’}, optional Defaults to “sample”. The axis over which to calculate maxima.
Returns:	scalar of self.dtype or np.array of self.dtype
Raises:	UnknownAxisError If provided an unrecognized axis.

Examples

>>> from biom import example_table
>>> print(example_table.max(axis='observation'))
[ 2.  5.]