Today I'd like to introduce a guest blogger, Peter Perkins, who is a statistical software developer here at The MathWorks. In his life prior to The MathWorks, he worked as a... read more >>

I’m pleased to introduce today’s guest blogger, Nausheen Moulana. Nausheen manages the teams responsible for the design and
development of the MATLAB language. She shares her thoughts on when you... read more >>

I've been asked repeatedly about the performance comparison between two MATLAB functions, bsxfun and repmat. These two functions can each help with calculations in which two arrays are... read more >>

Educators use MATLAB a lot. In addition to using MATLAB for research, many professors and instructors use MATLAB for teaching, including demonstrating and explaining concepts,... read more >>

Since MATLAB has had the capability to publish M-files, we have seen publishing being adopted at many educational institutions. And there is a variety of ways for you
to find out just what’s… read more >>

We have heard repeatedly over the years that users would like a tool to help clean up the workspace by choosing selected variables to retain. The function clear, has logic... read more >>

In the past, when you opened a file in a MATLAB program, you had to keep track of it so you could close it under all possible conditions, i.e., if reading or... read more >>

The first 2008 semi-annual release of MathWorks products is now available, R2008a. Over the next few months, some of my blog articles will highlight new features.
 
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The MATLAB function accumarray seems to be under-appreciated. accumarray allows you to aggregate items in an array in the way that you specify. Contents ... read more >>

This post continues in the theme from my last post, where people routinely come to me on a topic. Today I want to distinguish
between indexed assignment, where you can take advantage of scalar... read more >>