how to write argmax in latex
March 29th, 2006 by Lawrence David
to write argmax with respect to some variable (i.e. theta), code:
\arg\max_\theta
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March 29th, 2006 by Lawrence David
to write argmax with respect to some variable (i.e. theta), code:
\arg\max_\theta
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The above works quite well though it leaves an extra space between the ARG and MAX. To avoid it use the negative space command:
arg ! max_theta
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cool tip! learned my new trick of the day
Nice tip!
An very useful at this precise moment
you are #1 when one googles “argmax latex”
you saved me from opening the stupid latex manual
with this solution the subscripted variable will appear centered beneath the word “max”, instead of centered beneath the whole word. i found a way to solve this on wikipedia:
place the following command in the header of your latex document:
newcommand{argmax}{operatornamewithlimits{argmax}}
now you can use it like this:
argmax_theta
just a correction, it should be
\newcommand{\argmax}{\operatornamewithlimits{argmax}}
Alternatively,
\DeclareMathOperator*{\argmax}{arg\,max}
For the operatornamewithlimits trick to work you have to \usepackage{amsmath}.
nice one
Thanks!
Yeah, I like the \DeclareMathOperator* solution much better. If you’re using LaTeX, you might as well get all the alignment correct, right?
Thanks for this tip. It was very useful