This chapter begins with a brief discussion about basic statistical functions used in MATLAB. After that, sorting, searching, and processing data with Microsoft Excel files are presented.
Basic Statistics
MATLAB offers a great variety of features and ready-to-use, built-in functions in the area of statistics. In this book, I only introduce an outline of the topic with some basic statistical functions (Table 6-1).
Table 6-1
Some of the Basic Functions Related to Statistics in MATLAB
Function | Explanation | Example |
|---|---|---|
max() | Returns the maximum element | max([1,34,21,5]) |
mean() | Returns the average or mean value ... |
