Index

of linear equation solution

accuracy

of matrix inversion

relative floating-point

acos

acosh

acot

acoth

acsc

acsch

actxcontrol

actxserver

Adams-Bashforth-Moulton ODE solver

addframe

AVI files

addition (arithmetic operator)

addpath

addproperty

addressing selected array elements

adjacency graph

airy

Airy functions

relationship to modified Bessel functions

aligning scattered data

allocation of storage (automatic)

ALim, Axes property

all

AlphaData

AlphaDataMapping

AmbientLightColor, Axes property

AmbientStrength

passing variable numbers of

and (M-file function equivalent for &)

AND, logical

angle

ans

any

area

arguments, M-file

checking number of input

number of input

number of output

arithmetic operations, matrix and array distinguished

arithmetic operators

reference

array

addressing selected elements of

displaying

finding indices of

left division (arithmetic operator)

multiplication (arithmetic operator)

of all ones

power (arithmetic operator)

product of elements

of random numbers <1> <2>

removing first n singleton dimensions of

removing singleton dimensions of

reshaping

right division (arithmetic operator)

shift circularly

shifting dimensions of

size of

sorting elements of

structure <1> <2> <3> <4>

sum of elements

swapping dimensions of <1> <2>

transpose (arithmetic operator)

arrays

ASCII

delimited files

converting sparse matrix after loading from

ASCII data

printable characters (list of)

aspect ratio of axes <1> <2>

saving to disk

asec

asech

asin

asinh

assignin

atan

atan2

atanh

.au files

signal conversion <1> <2>

audio

saving in AVI format

audio devices

audiodevinfo

audioplayer

audiorecorder

autoselection of OpenGL

auwrite

average of array elements

average,running

avi

avifile

aviinfo

aviread

Axes

setting and querying data aspect ratio

fixed-width font

property descriptions

axes

setting and querying limits

setting and querying plot box aspect ratio

axes

axis crossing See zero of a function

axis

azimuth (spherical coordinates)

azimuth of viewpoint

B

BackFaceLighting

BackFaceLightingpatch property

BackGroundColor

BackgroundColor

BackingStore, Figure property

badly conditioned

balance

bar

bar3

bar3h

barh

base to decimal conversion

base two operations

conversion from decimal to binary

base2dec

Bessel functions

modified, second kind

second kind

Bessel functions, modified

relationship to Airy functions

Bessel's equation

modified (defined)

besseli

besselj

besselk

bessely

beta

beta function

BiConjugate Gradients method

incomplete (defined)

natural logarithm

betainc

betaln

bicg

bicgstab

BiConjugate Gradients Stabilized method

big endian formats

bin2dec

binary

data

files

mode for opened files

binary data

binary to decimal conversion

saving to disk

support

bitand

bitcmp

bitget

bitmax

bitor

bitset

bitshift

bit-wise operations

AND

get

set bit

shift

XOR

bitxor

blanks

removing trailing

blanks

blkdiag

BMP <1> <2> <3>

bold font

TeX characters

box

Box, Axes property

braces, curly (special characters)

brackets (special characters)

break

breakpoints

listing

removing

resuming execution from

setting in M-files

brighten

browser

for help

Buckminster Fuller

builtin

BusyAction

ButtonDownFcn

bvp4c

bvpget

bvpinit

bvpset

bvpval

C

caching

MATLAB directory

calendar

CallBack

CallbackObject, Root property

camdolly

camera

dollying position

moving camera and target postions

placing a light at

positioning to view objects

rotating around camera target <1> <2>

rotating around viewing axis

setting and querying position

setting and querying projection type

setting and querying target

setting and querying up vector

setting and querying view angle

CameraPosition, Axes property

CameraPositionMode, Axes property

CameraTarget, Axes property

CameraTargetMode, Axes property

CameraUpVector, Axes property

CameraUpVectorMode, Axes property

CameraViewAngle, Axes property

CameraViewAngleMode, Axes property

camlight

camlookat

camorbit

campan

campos

camproj

camroll

camtarget

camup

camva

camzoom

capture

CaptureMatrix, Root property

CaptureRect, Root property

cart2pol

cart2sph

Cartesian coordinates <1> <2> <3> <4>

case

in switch statement (defined)

lower to upper

upper to lower

case

cat

catch

caxis

Cayley-Hamilton theorem

cd

CData

CDataMapping

CDatapatch property

cdf2rdf

cdfepoch

cdfinfo

cdfread

cdfwrite

ceil

cell

cell array

conversion to from numeric array

conversion, in format specification string <1> <2>

structure of, displaying

cell2mat

cell2struct

celldisp

cellfun

cellplot

cgs

char

characters

escape, in format specification string <1> <2>

check boxes

Checked, Uimenu property

checkerboard pattern (example)

checkin

checkout

Children

(as algorithm for solving linear equations)

chol

Cholesky factorization

lower triangular factor

minimum degree ordering and (sparse)

preordering for

cholinc

cholupdate

circshift

cla

clabel

class

class, object See object classes

classes

field names

loaded

clc <1> <2>

clear

clearing

clf

CLim, Axes property

CLimMode, Axes property

clipboard

Clipping

CloseRequestFcn, Figure property

Clippingpatch property

clock

close

AVI files

closest point search

closest triangle search

closing

files

MATLAB

cmapeditor

cmopts

colamd

colmmd

Color

colorbar

colormap

editor

colormap

Colormap, Figure property

colormaps

converting from RGB to HSV

plotting RGB components

ColorOrder, Axes property

ColorSpec

colperm

COM

object methods

actxcontrol

actxserver

addproperty

delete

deleteproperty

eventlisteners

events

get

inspect

invoke

isevent

ismethod

isprop

load

move

propedit

registerevent

release

save

send

set

unregisterallevents

unregisterevent

combinations of n elements

combs

comet

comet3

comma (special characters)

Command Window

commands

commercial MATLAB

emulating the Runtime Server

common elements See set operations, intersection

compan

companion matrix

compass

complementary error function

scaled (defined)

complete elliptic integral

complex numbers, magnitude

modulus of <1> <2>

complex

exponential (defined)

logarithm <1> <2>

numbers

numbers, sorting <1> <2>

complex

complex data

complex Schur form

compress files

computer

computer MATLAB is running on

concatenating arrays

cond

condeig

condest

condition number of matrix <1> <2>

improving

coneplot

conj

continuation (..., special characters)

continue

continued fraction expansion

contour

and mesh plot

filled plot

functions

of mathematical expression

with surface plot

contour

contour3

contourc

contourf

contours

in slice planes

contourslice

contrast

conv

conv2

conversion

base to decimal

binary to decimal

Cartesian to cylindrical

Cartesian to polar

complex diagonal to real block diagonal

cylindrical to Cartesian

decimal number to base <1> <2>

decimal to binary

decimal to hexadecimal

full to sparse

hexadecimal to decimal

hexadecimal to double precision

integer to string

lowercase to uppercase

matrix to string

numeric array to cell array

numeric array to logical array

numeric array to string

partial fraction expansion to pole-residue

polar to Cartesian

pole-residue to partial fraction expansion

real to complex Schur form

spherical to Cartesian

string matrix to cell array

string to numeric array

uppercase to lowercase

vector to character string

conversion characters in format specification string <1> <2>

convex hulls

multidimensional vizualization

two-dimensional vizualization

convhull

convhulln

convn

convolution

inverse See deconvolution

coordinate system and viewpoint

coordinates

Cartesian <1> <2> <3> <4>

cylindrical <1> <2> <3>

polar <1> <2> <3>

spherical

coordinates.See also conversion

copyfile

copyobj

corrcoef

cos

cosecant

cosh

cot

coth

cov

covariance

least squares solution and

cplxpair

cputime

CreateFcn

creating your own MATLAB functions

cross

cross product

csc

csch

csvread

csvwrite

ctranspose (M-file function equivalent for ')

cubic interpolation <1> <2>

piecewise Hermite

cubic spline interpolation

cumprod

cumsum

cumtrapz

cumulative

product

sum

curl

curly braces (special characters)

current directory

changing

CurrentAxes

CurrentAxes, Figure property

CurrentCharacter, Figure property

CurrentFigure, Root property

CurrentMenu, Figure property (obsolete)

CurrentObject, Figure property

CurrentPoint

Curvature, rectangle property

curve fitting (polynomial)

customverctrl

Cuthill-McKee ordering, reverse <1> <2>

cylinder

cylindrical coordinates <1> <2> <3>

D

daspect

data

ASCII

ASCII, saving to disk

binary

binary, dependence upon array size and type

binary, saving to disk

computing 2-D stream lines

computing 3-D stream lines

formatted

reading from files

isosurface from volume data

formatting <1> <2>

reading binary from disk

reading from files

reducing number of elements in

smoothing 3-D

writing to strings

data aspect ratio of axes

data types

complex

data, aligning scattered

converting sparse matrix after loading from

data, ASCII

DataAspectRatio, Axes property

DataAspectRatioMode, Axes property

date

date and time functions

date string

format of

date vector

datenum

datestr

datevec

dbclear

dbcont

dbdown

dblquad

dbmex

dbquit

dbstack

dbstatus

dbstep

dbstop

dbtype

dbup

dde23

ddeadv

ddeexec

ddeget

ddeinit

ddepoke

ddereq

ddeset

ddeterm

ddeunadv

deal

deblank

debugging

changing workspace context

changing workspace to calling M-file

displaying function call stack

resuming execution from breakpoint

setting breakpoints in

stepping through lines

dec2base <1> <2>

dec2bin

dec2hex

decimal number to base conversion <1> <2>

decimal point (.)

(special characters)

to distinguish matrix and array operations

decomposition

Dulmage-Mendelsohn

"economy-size" <1> <2>

orthogonal-triangular (QR)

Schur

singular value <1> <2>

deconv

del2

delaunay

Delaunay tessellation

3-dimensional vizualization

multidimensional vizualization

Delaunay triangulation

vizualization

delaunay3

delaunayn

delete <1> <2>

delete

DeleteFcn

Text property <1> <2>

DeleteFcn, rectangle property

DeleteFcn, line property

DeleteFcnpatch property

deleteproperty

deleting

files

items from workspace

delimiters in ASCII files <1> <2>

demo

density

of sparse matrix

depdir

dependence, linear

dependent functions

depfun

derivative

approximate

polynomial

det

Detect

detecting

alphabetic characters

NaNs

objects of a given class

positive, negative, and zero array elements

prime numbers

real numbers

sparse matrix

determinant of a matrix

detrend

deval

diag

diagonal

anti-

k-th (illustration)

main

sparse

dialog

dialog box

diary

Diary, Root property

DiaryFile, Root property

diff

differences

between adjacent array elements

between sets

differential equation solvers

defining an ODE problem

ODE boundary value problems

adjusting parameters

extracting properties

extracting properties of <1> <2> <3> <4>

forming initial guess

ODE initial value problems

adjusting parameters of

extracting properties of

parabolic-elliptic PDE problems

DiffuseStrength

DiffuseStrengthpatch property

digamma function

dimension statement (lack of in MATLAB)

dimensions

size of

Diophantine equations

dir

direct term of a partial fraction expansion

directories

adding to search path

copying

removing from search path

listing contents of

listing MATLAB files in

listing, on UNIX

MATLAB

caching

removing

See also directory, search path

E

echo

Echo, Root property

edge finding, Sobel technique

EdgeAlpha

EdgeColor

EdgeColor, rectangle property

EdgeLighting

editing

eig

eigensystem

eigenvalue

modern approach to computation of

multiple

of companion matrix

problem <1> <2>

problem, generalized <1> <2>

problem, polynomial

repeated

Wilkinson test matrix and

eigenvalues

effect of roundoff error

eigenvector

eigs

elevation (spherical coordinates)

elevation of viewpoint

ellipj

ellipke

elliptic functions, Jacobian

elliptic integral

complete (defined)

modulus of <1> <2>

else

elseif

Enable

equal sign (special characters)

end

end caps for isosurfaces

end of line, indicating

end-of-file indicator

eomday

eps

equal arrays

detecting <1> <2>

equations, linear

EraseMode

EraseModepatch property

erf

erfc

erfcinv

erfcx

erfinv

error

roundoff See roundoff error

error

error function

error message

Index into matrix is negative or zero

retrieving last generated <1> <2>

error messages

Out of memory

errorbar

errordlg

ErrorMessage, Root property

errors

in file input/output

ErrorType, Root property

escape characters in format specification string <1> <2>

etime

etree

etreeplot

eval

evalc

evalin

eventlisteners

events

examples

calculating isosurface normals

contouring mathematical expressions

isosurface end caps

isosurfaces

mesh plot of mathematical function

mesh/contour plot

plotting filled contours

plotting function of two variables

plotting parametric curves

polar plot of function

reducing number of patch faces

reducing volume data

subsampling volume data

surface plot of mathematical function

surface/contour plot

Excel spreadsheets

exclamation point (special characters)

executing statements repeatedly <1> <2>

execution

improving speed of by setting aside storage

pausing M-file

resuming from breakpoint

time for M-files

exist

exit

exp

expint

expm

exponentiation

array (arithmetic operator)

matrix (arithmetic operator)

extension, filename

.m

.mat

Extent

eye

ezcontour

ezcontourf

ezmesh

ezmeshc

ezplot

ezplot3

ezpolar

ezsurf

ezsurfc

F

FaceAlphapatch property

FaceAlphasurface property

FaceColor

FaceColor, rectangle property

FaceColorpatch property

FaceLighting

faces, reducing number in patches

FaceLightingpatch property

Faces,patch property

FaceVertexAlphaData, patch property

FaceVertexCData,patch property

factor

factorial

factorization

QZ <1> <2>

See also decomposition

factorization, Cholesky

(as algorithm for solving linear equations)

minimum degree ordering and (sparse)

preordering for

factors, prime

false

fclose

feather

feof

ferror

feval

fft

FFT See Fourier transform

fft2

fftn

fftshift

FFTW

fgetl

fgets

field names of a structure, obtaining

fields, noncontiguous, inserting data into

fig files

figflag

Figure

figure windows, displaying

redrawing

figure

Figures

figures

file

position indicator

setting to start of file

file formats <1> <2>

file size

querying

fileattrib

filebrowser

filename

building from parts

parts

temporary

filename extension

.m

.mat

fileparts

files

ASCII delimited

beginning of, rewinding to <1> <2>

errors in input or output

Excel spreadsheets

fig <1> <2>

figure, saving

finding position within

getting next line

getting next line (with line terminator)

listing

MAT

mdl

opening in Windows applications

reading

reading image data from

readme

rewinding to beginning of <1> <2>

setting position within

sound

.wav

WK1

writing binary data to

writing formatted data to

writing image data to

See also file

filesep

fill

fill3

filter

digital

finite impulse response (FIR)

infinite impulse response (IIR)

filter

filter2

find

findfigs

finding

indices of arrays

sign of array elements

zero of a function

See also detecting

findobj

finish

finish.m

finite numbers

FixedColors, Figure property

FIR filter

fitsinfo

fitsread

fix

fixed-width font

axes

text

uicontrols

FixedWidthFontName, Root property

flint See floating-point, integer

flints

flipdim

fliplr

flipud

floating-point

integer <1> <2>

integer, maximum

numbers, interval between

floating-point arithmetic, IEEE

smallest postive number

floor

flops

flow control

break

case

end

error

for

keyboard

otherwise

return

switch

while

fmin

fminbnd

fmins

fminsearch

F-norm

font

fixed-width, axes

fixed-width, text

fixed-width, uicontrols

FontAngle

FontName

fonts

TeX characters

FontSize

FontUnits

FontWeight

fopen

for

ForegroundColor

specification string, matching file data to

Format

format

precision when writing

reading files

format

formats

big endian

little endian

FormatSpacing, Root property

formatted data

reading from file

algorithm, optimal performance of <1> <2> <3> <4>

formatting data

Fourier transform

convolution theorem and

discrete, n-dimensional

discrete, one-dimensional

discrete, two-dimensional

fast

as method of interpolation

inverse, n-dimensional

inverse, one-dimensional

inverse, two-dimensional

shifting the zero-frequency component of

fplot

fprintf

frame2im

fread

free serial port from MATLAB

freeserial

freqspace

frequency response

desired response matrix

frequency spacing

frequency vector

frewind

fscanf

minimizing (single variable)

fseek

ftell

full

fullfile

function

function <1> <2>

function syntax

functions

call stack for

that work down the first non-singleton dimension

finding using keywords

funm

fwrite

fzero

G

gallery

gamma

gamma function

Gaussian distribution function

incomplete

logarithm of

logarithmic derivative

gammainc

gammaln

Gaussian elimination

(as algorithm for solving linear equations) <1> <2>

Gauss Jordan elimination with partial pivoting

LU factorization

gca

gcbo

gcd

gcf

gco

generalized eigenvalue problem <1> <2>

generating a sequence of matrix names (M1 through M12)

genpath

geodesic dome

get <1> <2>

get

global variables, clearing from workspace

getenv

getfield

getframe

ginput

global

global variable

defining

gmres

gplot

gradient

graph

graphics objects

graphics objects, deleting

graphs

Greek letters and mathematical symbols

graymon

greatest common divisor

grid

aligning data to a

grid

grid arrays

for volumetric plots

GridLineStyle, Axes property

griddata

griddata3

griddatan

gsvd

gtext

GUIs, printing

H

hadamard

HandleVisibility

appending to when saving (WriteMode)

hankel

compression

reading with special imread syntax

setting JPEG quality when writing

hdf

hdfinfo

hdfread

hdftool

help

contents file

creating for M-files

files, location for UNIX

keyword search in functions

help

helpbrowser

helpdesk

helpdlg

helpwin

Hermite transformations, elementary

hess

Hessenberg form of a matrix

hex2dec

hex2num

hidden

hilb

hist

HitTest

hold

home

HorizontalAlignment

Householder reflections (as algorithm for solving linear equations)

horzcat

horzcat (M-file function equivalent for [,])

hsv2rgb

HTML browser

HTML files

hyperbolic

hyperplanes, angle between

I

i

icon images

identity matrix

sparse

IEEE floating-point arithmetic

smallest positive number

if

ifft

ifft2

ifftn

ifftshift

IIR filter

im2java

imag

Image

converting MATLAB image to Java Image

image

image types

querying

Images

images

file formats <1> <2>

reading data from files

returning information about

writing to files

imagesc

imaginary

part of complex number

parts of inverse FFT <1> <2>

unit (sqrt(-1)) <1> <2>

See also complex

imfinfo

returning file information

imformats

import

import

importdata

importing

Java class and package names

imread

imwrite <1> <2>

incomplete beta function

incomplete gamma function

Index into matrix is negative or zero (error message)

ind2sub

indexing

logical

indicator of file position

indices, array

finding

of sorted elements

Inf

inferiorto

infinite elements

returning file information

infinity

norm

info

information

inheritance, of objects

inline

inmem

inpolygon

input

checking number of M-file arguments

name of array passed as

number of M-file arguments

prompting users for <1> <2>

input

inputdlg

inputname

inspect

installation, root directory of

instrcallback

instrfind

int2str

int8, int16, int32, int64

integer

floating-point <1> <2>

floating-point, maximum

integration

polynomial

quadrature

interp1

interp2

interp3

interpft

interpn

interpolated shading and printing

interpolation

cubic method <1> <2> <3> <4> <5>

cubic spline method

FFT method

linear method <1> <2>

nearest neighbor method <1> <2> <3> <4> <5>

trilinear method <1> <2> <3>

interpreter, MATLAB

search algorithm of

Interpreter, Text property

Interruptible

Fourier transform <1> <2> <3>

intersect

inv

inverse

cosecant

cosine

cotangent

tangent, four-quadrant

inversion, matrix

accuracy of

InvertHardCopy, Figure property

invhilb

invoke

involutary matrix

ipermute

is*

isa

iscell

iscellstr

ischar

isempty

isequal

isequalwithequalnans

isevent

isfield

isfinite

isglobal

ishandle

ishold

isinf

isjava

iskeyword

isletter

islogical

ismember

ismethod

isnan

isnumeric

isobject

isocap

isonormals

isosurface

calculate data from volume

end caps

vertex normals

isosurface

ispc

isprime

isprop

isreal

isruntime

issorted

isspace

issparse

isstr

isstruct

isstudent

isunix

isvalid

Java version used by MATLAB

isvarname

isvarname

italics font

TeX characters

J

j

Jacobi rotations

Jacobian elliptic functions

Java

Java Image class

Java import list

java_method <1> <2> <3> <4>

java_object

javachk

joining arrays See concatenating arrays

JPEG comment

setting when writing a JPEG image

JPEG files <1> <2> <3>

setting when writing a JPEG image

JPEG quality

setting when writing an HDF image

K

K>> prompt

keyboard

keyboard mode

terminating

KeyPressFcn, Figure property

keyword search in functions

kron

Kronecker tensor product

L

Label, Uimenu property

labeling

axes

matrix columns

plots (with numeric values)

Laplacian

largest array elements

lasterr

lasterror

lastwarn

LaTeX, see TeX

Layer, Axes property

Layout Editor

starting

lcm

ldivide (M-file function equivalent for .\)

least common multiple

least squares

polynomial curve fitting

problem

problem, nonnegative

problem, overdetermined

legend

legendre

Legendre functions

Schmidt semi-normalized

length

license

Light

positioning in camera coordinates

positioning in spherical coordinates

light

Light object

lightangle

lighting

limits of axes, setting and querying

Line

properties <1> <2>

line

linear audio signal <1> <2>

line numbers in M-files

linear dependence (of data)

linear equation systems

accuracy of solution

solving overdetermined

linear equation systems, methods for solving

Cholesky factorization

Gaussian elimination

Householder reflections

least squares

matrix inversion (inaccuracy of)

linear interpolation <1> <2>

linear regression

linearly spaced vectors, creating

lines

computing 2-D stream

computing 3-D stream

drawing stream lines

LineSpec

LineStyle

LineStyleOrder

LineWidth

linspace

ListboxTop, Uicontrol property

listdlg

little endian formats

load <1> <2>

load

of beta function (natural)

loadobj

Lobatto IIIa ODE solver

local variables <1> <2>

locking M-files

log

saving session to file

log

log10 [log010]

log2

logarithm

of gamma function (natural)

of real numbers

plotting

logarithmic derivative

gamma function

logarithmically spaced vectors, creating

logical

logical array

converting numeric array to

logical operations

XOR

logical operators <1> <2>

logical tests

all

any

See also detecting

loglog

logm

logspace

lookfor

Lotus WK1 files

storage requirements of (sparse)

lower

lower triangular matrix

lowercase to uppercase

ls

lscov

lsqnonneg

lsqr

lu

LU factorization

luinc

M

magic

Marker

MarkerEdgeColor

MarkerFaceColor

MarkerSize

mat2cell

mat2str

material

MAT-file

converting sparse matrix after loading from

MAT-files

listing for directory

MATLAB

installation directory

quitting

startup

version number, displaying

matlab (UNIX command)

MATLAB interpreter

search algorithm of

MATLAB startup file

matlab.mat <1> <2>

matlabrc

matlabroot

matrices

preallocation

matrix

addressing selected rows and columns of

arrowhead

companion

complex unitary

condition number of <1> <2>

condition number, improving

converting to formatted data file

converting to from string

Dulmage-Mendelsohn decomposition

evaluating functions of

inversion, accuracy of

involutary

left division (arithmetic operator)

lower triangular

magic squares <1> <2>

maximum size of

modal

multiplication (defined)

power (arithmetic operator)

pseudoinverse

reading files into

reduced row echelon form of

replicating

right division (arithmetic operator)

rotating 90°

Schur form of <1> <2>

singularity, test for

sorting rows of

sparse See sparse matrix

transpose (arithmetic operator)

writing as binary data

writing formatted data to

writing to ASCII delimited file

writing to spreadsheet

See also array

matrix functions

evaluating

matrix names, (M1 through M12) generating a sequence of

matrix power See matrix, exponential

max

Max, Uicontrol property

maximum matching

MDL-files

median value of array elements

mean

median

memory

clearing

minimizing use of

variables in

memory

menu

menu (of user input choices)

MenuBar, Figure property

mesh

mesh plot

tetrahedron

meshc

meshgrid

MeshStyle, Surface property

meshz

message

error See error message

warning See warning message

methods

inheritance of

locating

MEX-files

displaying during execution

debugging on UNIX

listing for directory

M-file

debugging

function

function file, echoing

M-files

creating

in MATLAB directory

debugging with profile

deleting

listing names of in a directory

line numbers, listing

locking (preventing clearing)

opening

optimizing

setting breakpoints

unlocking (allowing clearing)

Microsoft Excel files

min

Min, Uicontrol property

MinColormap, Figure property

minimizing, function

of one variable

minimum degree ordering

MinorGridLineStyle, Axes property

minres

minus (M-file function equivalent for -)

mislocked

mkdir

mkpp

mldivide (M-file function equivalent for \)

mlock

mod

modal matrix

models

opening

saving

modified Bessel functions

relationship to Airy functions

modifying for PVCS

modulo arithmetic

Moore-Penrose pseudoinverse

more <1> <2>

move

movefile

movie

movie2avi

moviein

movies

exporting in AVI format

mpower (M-file function equivalent for ^)

mrdivide (M-file function equivalent for /)

msgbox

mtimes (M-file function equivalent for *)

mu-law encoded audio signals <1> <2>

multibandread

multibandwrite

multidimensional arrays

concatenating

interpolation of

longest dimension of

number of dimensions of

rearranging dimensions of <1> <2>

removing singleton dimensions of

multiple

multiplication

array (arithmetic operator)

matrix (defined)

of polynomials

multistep ODE solver

munlock

N

Name, Figure property

naming conventions

NaN

nargchk

nargin

nargout

ndgrid

ndims

nearest neighbor interpolation <1> <2> <3>

newplot

NextPlot

Axes property

Figure property

nextpow2

nnls

nnz

no derivative method

noncontiguous fields, inserting data into

nonzero entries

specifying maximum number of in sparse matrix

nonzero entries (in sparse matrix)

allocated storage for

number of

replacing with ones

vector of

nonzeros

norm

norm

normal vectors, computing for volumes

NormalMode

NumberTitle, Figure property

normest

not (M-file function equivalent for ~)

notebook

now

null

null space

num2cell

num2str

number

numbers

NaN

numel

numeric format

numeric precision

format reading binary data

numerical differentiation formula ODE solvers

numerical evaluation

double integral

triple integral

nzmax

O

object

determining class of

inheritance

object classes, list of predefined <1> <2>

objects

Java <1> <2>

ODE file template

ode113

ode15s

ode23

ode23s

ode23t

ode23tb

ode45

odefile

odeget

odeset

off-screen figures, displaying

ones

one-step ODE solver

online documentation, displaying

online help

location of files for UNIX

open

OpenGL

autoselection criteria

opening

files in Windows applications

opening files

openvar

operating system command

operating system command, issuing

operators

optimget

optimization parameters structure <1> <2>

Optimization Toolbox

optimizing M-file execution

optimset

logical OR

bit-wise

or (M-file function equivalent for |)

orderfields

ordering

minimum degree

reverse Cuthill-McKee <1> <2>

orient

orth

orthogonal-triangular decomposition

orthographic projection, setting and querying

orthonormal matrix

otherwise

Out of memory (error message)

output

controlling display format

in Command Window

number of M-file arguments

overdetermined equation systems, solving

overflow

P

pack

pagedlg

pagesetupdlg

paging

of screen

paging in the Command Window

PaperOrientation, Figure property

PaperPosition, Figure property

PaperPositionMode, Figure property

PaperSize, Figure property

PaperType, Figure property

PaperUnits, Figure property

parametric curve, plotting

Parent

parentheses (special characters)

pareto

Parlett's method (of evaluating matrix functions)

partial fraction expansion

partialpath

pascal

Pascal matrix <1> <2>

Patch

converting a surface to

removing directories from

reducing number of faces

reducing size of face

patch

path

adding directories to

building from parts

current

viewing

path

path2rc

pathname

partial

pathnames

of functions or files

relative

pathtool

pause

pauses, removing

pausing M-file execution

pbaspect

PBM

PDE See Partial Differential Equations

pcg

pchip

pcode

pcolor

PCX <1> <2> <3>

pdepe

pdeval

percent sign (special characters)

perfect matching

period (.), to distinguish matrix and array operations

period (special characters)

perl

perms

permutation

of array dimensions

matrix <1> <2>

random

permutations of n elements

permute

persistent

persistent variable

perspective projection, setting and querying

P-files

PGM

platform MATLAB is running on

phase angle, complex

phase, complex

correcting angles

pi

pie

pie3

pinv

planerot

plot

plot box aspect ratio of axes

Plot Editor

interface <1> <2>

plot, volumetric

generating grid arrays for

slice plot

plot3

PlotBoxAspectRatio, Axes property

PlotBoxAspectRatioMode, Axes property

plotedit

plotmatrix

plotting

2-D plot

3-D plot

contours (a

contours (ez function)

errorbars

ez-function mesh plot

feather plots

filled contours

function plots

functions with discontinuities

mathematical function

volumetric slice plot

plotting See visualizing

plotyy

plus (M-file function equivalent for +)

PNG

reading with special imread syntax

PNG,PNM,PBM,PPM,RAS,TIFF

Pointer, Figure property

PointerLocation, Root property

PointerShapeCData, Figure property

PointerShapeHotSpot, Figure property

PointerWindow, Root property

pol2cart

polar

polar coordinates

computing the angle

converting from Cartesian

converting to cylindrical or Cartesian

plotting in

poles of transfer function

poly

polyarea

polyder

polyeig

polyfit

polygamma function

polygon

area of

creating with patch

detecting points inside

polyint

polynomial

analytic integration

characteristic

coefficients (transfer function)

evaluation (matrix sense)

make piecewise

multiplication

polyval

polyvalm

poorly conditioned

matrix

poorly conditioned eigenvalues

Position

position indicator in file

position of camera

dollying

position of camera, setting and querying

Position, rectangle property

PostScript

printing interpolated shading

pow2

power

matrix See matrix exponential

of real numbers

of two, next

power (M-file function equivalent for .^)

PPM

reading binary data writing

ppval

preallocation

matrix

precision

prefdir

prime factors

dependence of Fourier transform on <1> <2> <3>

prime numbers

projection type, setting and querying

primes

print

print frames

printdlg

printer drivers

GhostScript drivers

interploated shading

MATLAB printer drivers

printframe

printing

with a variable filename

with non-normal EraseMode <1> <2> <3> <4> <5> <6>

with print frames

printing tips

printing, suppressing

printopt

printpreview

prod

product

profile

profreport

ProjectionType, Axes property

K>> prompt

prompting users for input <1> <2>

propedit <1> <2>

Property Editor

interface

pseudoinverse

psi

push buttons

pwd

Q

qmr

qr

QR decomposition

deleting column from

qrdelete

qrinsert

qrupdate

quad

quad8

quadl

quadrature

questdlg

quit

quitting MATLAB

quiver

quiver3

quotation mark

inserting in a string

qz

QZ factorization <1> <2>

R

radio buttons

rand

randn

random

numbers <1> <2>

permutation

sparse matrix <1> <2>

symmetric sparse matrix

randperm

range space

rank

rank of a matrix

RAS files

rational fraction approximation

rat

rats

rbbox <1> <2>

rcond

rdivide (M-file function equivalent for ./)

readasync

reading

binary files

data from files

formatted data from file

formatted data from strings

readme file

readme files, displaying

real

real numbers

reallog

realmax

realmin

realpow

realsqrt

rearranging arrays

converting to vector

removing first n singleton dimensions

removing singleton dimensions

reshaping

shifting dimensions

swapping dimensions <1> <2>

rearranging matrices

record

rectint

RecursionLimit

Root property

reduced row echelon form

reducepatch

reducevolume

reference page

accessing from doc

refresh

regexp

regexpi

regexprep

registerevent

regression

linear

regularly spaced vectors, creating <1> <2>

rehash

relational operators <1> <2>

relative accuracy

floating-point

release

release serial port from MATLAB

rem

remainder after division

renderer

OpenGL

painters

zbuffer

Renderer, Figure property

RendererMode, Figure property

repeatedly executing statements <1> <2>

replicating a matrix

repmat

reports

profile

reset

reshape

residue

residues of transfer function

Resize, Figure property

ResizeFcn, Figure property

rethrow

return

reverse Cuthill-McKee ordering <1> <2>

rewinding files to beginning of <1> <2>

RGB, converting to HSV

rgb2hsv

rgbplot

ribbon

right-click and context menus

rmdir

rmfield

rmpath

RMS See root-mean-square

root object

root-mean-square

roots

roots of a polynomial

rose <1> <2>

Rosenbrock

banana function

ODE solver

rosser

rot90

rotate

rotate3d

rotating camera

rotating camera target

Rotation, Text property

rotations

Jacobi

round

to nearest integer

towards infinity

towards minus infinity

towards zero

round

roundoff error

characteristic polynomial and

convolution theorem and

effect on eigenvalues

evaluating matrix functions

in inverse Hilbert matrix

partial fraction expansion and

polynomial roots and

sparse matrix conversion and

rref

rrefmovie

rsf2csf

rubberband box

run

Runge-Kutta ODE solvers

running average

runtime

runtime command

S

save <1> <2>

save

scalar product (of vectors)

saveas

saveobj

saving

ASCII data

session to a file

workspace variables

scaled complementary error function (defined)

scatter

scatter3

scattered data, aligning

Schmidt semi-normalized Legendre functions

schur

Schur decomposition

Schur form of matrix <1> <2>

screen, paging

ScreenDepth, Root property

ScreenSize, Root property

script

scrolling screen

search path

adding directories to

sec

sech

Selected

SelectionHighlight

SelectionType, Figure property

selectmoveresize

semicolon (special characters)

semilogx

semilogy

send

sendmail

Separator, Uimenu property

sequence of matrix names (M1 through M12)

generating

serial

serial port

release from MATLAB

serialbreak

session

saving

set <1> <2>

set

set operations

setdiff

setfield

setstr

setxor

shading

shading colors in surface plots

ShareColors, Figure property

shiftdim

shifting array

circular

ShowHiddenHandles, Root property

shrinkfaces

shutdown

sign

signum function

simplex search

Simpson's rule, adaptive recursive

Simulink

printing diagram with frames

version number, displaying

sin

single

single quote (special characters)

singular value

decomposition <1> <2>

largest

rank and

sinh

size

array dimesions

size

size of fonts, see also FontSize property

size of array dimensions

size vector

skipping bytes (during file I/O)

slice

slice planes, contouring

sliders

SliderStep, Uicontrol property

smallest array elements

smooth3

smoothing 3-D data

soccer ball (example)

sort

sorting

array elements

complex conjugate pairs

matrix rows

sortrows

sound

converting vector into <1> <2>

files

sound <1> <2>

source control systems

checking in files

checking out files

undo checkout

viewing current system

spalloc

sparse

sparse matrix

allocating space for

applying function only to nonzero elements of

density of

finding indices of nonzero elements of

diagonal

identity

minimum degree ordering of

number of nonzero elements in

permuting columns of

random <1> <2>

random symmetric

replacing nonzero elements of with ones

results of mixed operations on

solving least squares linear system

specifying maximum number of nonzero elements

vector of nonzero elements

visualizing sparsity pattern of

sparse storage

criterion for using

spaugment

spconvert

spdiags

special characters

descriptions

SpecularColorReflectance

SpecularExponent

SpecularStrength

speye

spfun

sph2cart

sphere

sphereical coordinates

defining a Light position in

spherical coordinates

spinmap

spline

spline interpolation (cubic)

spones

spparms

sprand

sprandn

sprandsym

sprank

spreadsheets

loading WK1 files

loading XLS files

reading into a matrix

writing from matrix

writing matrices into

sprintf

sqrt

sqrtm

square root

of a matrix

of array elements

of real numbers

squeeze

sscanf

stairs

start

startat

startup

Stateflow

printing diagram with frames

static text

std

stem

stem3

stop

allocated for nonzero entries (sparse)

stopasync

stopwatch timer

storage

sparse

storage allocation

str2cell

str2double

str2func

str2mat

str2num

strcat

strcmp

strcmpi

stream lines

computing 2-D

computing 3-D

drawing

stream2

stream3

stretch-to-fill

strfind

String

comparing the first n characters of two

string

comparing one to another

converting from vector to

converting matrix into <1> <2>

converting to lowercase

converting to numeric array

converting to uppercase

dictionary sort of

finding first token in

searching and replacing

searching for

string matrix to cell array conversion

strings

converting to matrix (formatted)

inserting a quotation mark in

writing data to

strings

strjust

strmatch

strncmp

strncmpi

strread

strrep

strtok

struct

struct2cell

structure array

field names of

getting contents of field of

remove field from

setting contents of a field of

strvcat

Style

Light property

subsref (M-file function equivalent for A(i,j,k...))

sub2ind

subfunction

subplot

subsasgn

subscripts

in axis title

in text strings

subsindex

subspace

subsref

substruct

subtraction (arithmetic operator)

subvolume

sum

cumulative

of array elements

sum

superiorto

superscripts

in axis title

in text strings

support

surf

surf2patch

Surface

and contour plotter

converting to a patch

defining default properties <1> <2>

plotting mathematical functions

surface normals, computing for volumes

surface

surfc

surfl

surfnorm

svd

svds

switch

symamd

symbfact

symbols

operators

symbols in text

symmlq

symmmd

symrcm

syntax

syntaxes

of M-file functions, defining

system

system directory, temporary

T

table lookup See interpolation

Tag

tensor, Kronecker product

tan

tangent

four-quadrant, inverse

tanh

tempdir

tempname

temporary

files

system directory

terminal

terminating MATLAB

test matrices

test, logical See logical tests and detecting <1> <2>

tetrahedron

mesh plot

tetramesh

TeX commands in text

Text

text mode for opened files

text

text

textread

textwrap

tic

TickDir, Axes property

TickDirMode, Axes property

TickLength, Axes property

TIFF <1> <2>

compression

encoding

ImageDescription field

maxvalue

reading with special imread syntax

resolution

writemode

tiling (copies of a matrix)

time

CPU

elapsed (stopwatch timer)

required to execute commands

time and date functions

timer

timer

timerfind

trace of a matrix <1> <2>

times (M-file function equivalent for .*)

title

with superscript <1> <2>

title

Title, Axes property

toc

toeplitz

Toeplitz matrix

toggle buttons

token See also string

Toolbox

TooltipString

trace

trailing blanks

removing

transform, Fourier

discrete, n-dimensional

discrete, one-dimensional

discrete, two-dimensional

inverse, n-dimensional

inverse, one-dimensional

inverse, two-dimensional

shifting the zero-frequency component of

transformation

See also conversion

transformations

elementary Hermite

transparency

transparency chunk

transpose

array (arithmetic operator)

matrix (arithmetic operator)

transpose (M-file function equivalent for .')

trapz

treelayout

treeplot

triangulation

2-D plot

tricubic interpolation

tril

trilinear interpolation <1> <2> <3>

trimesh

triple integral

numerical evaluation

triplequad

triplot

trisurf

triu

true

truth tables (for logical operations)

try

tsearch

tsearchn

Type

type

U

UIContextMenu

UiContextMenu

Uicontextmenu

Uicontextmenu

uicontextmenu

Uicontrol

fixed-width font

types of

uicontrol

uigetdir

uigetfile

uiimport

Uimenu

uint8, uint16, uint32, uint64

uimenu

uint8 <1> <2>

uiputfile

uiresume

uisetcolor

uisetfont

uiwait

uminus (M-file function equivalent for unary -)

uncompress files

unconstrained minimization

undefined numerical results

undocheckout

unimodular matrix

union

unique

unitary matrix (complex)

Units

unix

unmkpp

unregisterallevents

unregisterevent

unwrap

unzip

up vector, of camera

updating figure during M-file execution

uplus (M-file function equivalent for unary +)

upper

upper triangular matrix

uppercase to lowercase

url

opening in Web browser

urlread

urlwrite

usejava

UserData

variable numbers of M-file arguments

V

Value, Uicontrol property

vander

Vandermonde matrix

var

varargout

variables

graphical representation of

global

vector

vector field, plotting

vectorize

vectorizing ODE function (BVP)

vectors, creating

logarithmically spaced

regularly spaced <1> <2>

velocity vectors, plotting

ver

verctrl

version

version numbers

displaying

returned as strings

vertcat

vertcat (M-file function equivalent for [;])

VertexNormals

VerticalAlignment, Text property

Vertices, Patch property

video

saving in AVI format

view

azimuth of viewpoint

coordinate system defining

elevation of viewpoint

view

view angle, of camera

View, Axes property (obsolete)

viewing

a group of object

a specific object in a scene

viewmtx

Visible

calculating isosurface data

visualizing

volumes

computing 2-D stream lines

computing 3-D stream lines

computing isosurface normals

contouring slice planes

drawing stream lines

end caps

reducing face size in isosurfaces

reducing number of elements in

voronoi

Voronoi diagrams

multidimensional vizualization

two-dimensional vizualization

voronoin

W

wait

warning message (enabling, suppressing, and displaying)

waitbar

waitfor

waitforbuttonpress

warndlg

warning

waterfall

.wav files

wavplay

wavread

wavrecord

wavwrite

web

Web browser

displaying help in

pointing to file or url

weekday

well conditioned

what

whatsnew

which

while

white space characters, ASCII <1> <2>

whitebg

wilkinson

Wilkinson matrix <1> <2>

WindowButtonDownFcn, Figure property

WindowButtonMotionFcn, Figure property

WindowButtonUpFcn, Figure property

WindowStyle, Figure property

winopen

WK1 files

writing from matrix

wk1read

wk1write

workspace

changing context while debugging <1> <2>

clearing items from

consolidating memory

predefining variables

saving

variables in

viewing contents of

workspace

workspace variables

x-axis limits, setting and querying

writing

binary data to file

formatted data to file

X

XAxisLocation, Axes property

XColor, Axes property

XData

XDir, Axes property

XDisplay, Figure property

XGrid, Axes property

xlabel

XLabel, Axes property

xlim

XLim, Axes property

XLimMode, Axes property

XLS files

xlsfinfo

xlsread

XMinorGrid, Axes property

xmlread

xmlwrite

logical XOR

bit-wise

xor

XOR, printing <1> <2> <3> <4> <5> <6>

XScale, Axes property

xslt

XTick, Axes property

XTickLabel, Axes property

XTickLabelMode, Axes property

XTickMode, Axes property

XVisual, Figure property

XVisualMode, Figure property

XWD <1> <2> <3>

xyz coordinates See Cartesian coordinates <1> <2>

Y

y-axis limits, setting and querying

YAxisLocation, Axes property

YColor, Axes property

YData

YDir, Axes property

YGrid, Axes property

ylabel

YLabel, Axes property

ylim

YLim, Axes property

YLimMode, Axes property

YMinorGrid, Axes property

YScale, Axes property

YTick, Axes property

YTickLabel, Axes property

YTickLabelMode, Axes property

YTickMode, Axes property

Z

z-axis limits, setting and querying

ZColor, Axes property

ZData

Line property