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October 8th, 2007

MATLAB Basics video: Using NaN as placeholder data in graphics

This is one in a series of videos covering MATLAB basics. It is meant for the new MATLAB user.

This video covers how to uses NaN as placeholder data when plotting data so you can leave a gap where there is no data to plot.

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By Doug Hull

12:19 UTC | Posted in MATLAB Basics, Video | Permalink |

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3 Responses to “MATLAB Basics video: Using NaN as placeholder data in graphics”

  1. Marcelo replied on October 15th, 2007 at 06:49 UTC :

    Nice video. One idea for a next post would be to talk about the nanmean, nanstd, and all the other statistics functions that can deal with NaN.

  2. Marcelo replied on October 15th, 2007 at 06:53 UTC :

    I just saw the last post by Loren and she is talking about calculations with NaN…

  3. Doug replied on October 15th, 2007 at 10:40 UTC :

    Here is her post:
    http://blogs.mathworks.com/loren/2007/10/11/a-way-to-account-for-missing-data/

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