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Steven Lord

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I joined The MathWorks in the Technical Support department during the summer of 2001 and transferred into the Quality Engineering department in March of 2004. I now work qualifying the core MATLAB numerical functions (PLUS, MINUS, LU, FFT, ODE45, etc.) Professional Interests: mathematics, MATLAB For assistance with MATLAB question please post to MATLAB Answers or contact Technical Support using the Contact Us link in the upper-right corner of the page instead of contacting me directly.

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how to calculate mape
The mape function was added to MATLAB in release R2022b.

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"platform" error after copying Matlab example to a PC
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when open MATLAB there is such error on command window Error using settings. Too many output arguments. how to solve it
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Error "gausswin requires Signal Processing Tool"
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What is wrong with my approach to building this histogram?
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If else statement now hanging up and error message Subscripting into a table using one subscript
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Why don't I need a comment character after an (...) ellipsis?
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Linear indices from colon operator
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Multiple outputs from anonymous function
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null or NaN entries in image arrays?
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Class property described, but not available for serialPort objects?
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Is there a way to define a callback function in Matlab that triggers on runtime errors?
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Unit testing of a script that requires a file as input
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Constructing a string with several index requirements
r2 = [0 30 60 90 120 150 180 210]; ind = 0:numel(r2)-1; result = join("ScanArray(0)(" + ind + ")=" + r2, newl...

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Changing values in an array with unknown dimension
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Mesh error on my Matlab R2024a home edition
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Sparse matrix memory understanding
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if/elseif statement with rand() falling between two values
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Rock, Paper, Scissors Game
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How to remove some xticklabels (but still keeping all the xticks)?
x = 1:100; y = exp(-0.1*x); plot(x,y) xticks(0:10:100) xl = xticklabels; xl(1:2:end) = {''}; % Replace every other label x...

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ltefadingchannel built-in function
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Solve and Vpasolve can't find solutions
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Suppressing braces and single quotes of a string matrix
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Array indices must be positive integers or logical values
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Problem with iradon in Matlab 2024b
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