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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
This is a quick and informal guide to Matlab, arranged in five lessons: the basics, functions, matrix notation, truth values and ‘for’ loops. This gives the most basic building blocks, but Matlab can do a lot more. To discover more, try the commands help (e.g. help plot) and lookfor (e.g. lookfor correlation). While help gives the syntax for a single command, lookfor finds all potentially relevant functions available.
Lesson 1 The very basics
The ‘Mat‘ in Matlab has nothing to do with maths but with matrices: the program is a ‘Matrix Laboratory’. However, one does not have to worry about the details of matrix algebra: that's where the program's roots are, but it has evolved into something quite versatile.
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