Tick marks on primary x and y axes

I'm trying to create a plot where there's only tick marks on the bottom x axis and left y axis, but everything I've tried thus far just produces tick marks on all sides. Please not that the y axis is meant to go in descending order. Thanks!

Here is the code I currently have for the plot:

figure(1);

plot(h, n, "k");

set(gca,'YDir','reverse', 'TickDir', 'out');

xlabel('Distance (cm)');

ylabel('Time (min)');

axis square;

box on

set(gcf, 'Color', 'w')

Answer 1

[RAGHUNATHRAJU DASHARATHA]

As per my understanding you want to remove tick marks on top x axis and right y axis .

I will try to demonstrate using the below example.

a=1:10;
b=1:10;
figure;
plot(a, b, "k");
h=gca;
set(h, 'TickDir', 'out','box','off','color','none')
c=axes('Position',h.Position,'box','on','xtick',[],'ytick',[]);
axes(h)
linkaxes([h c])
xlabel('Distance (cm)');
ylabel('Time (min)');

[Madmad]

Coming back to this answer that worked well: How to keep my figure invisible if I set figure('visible','off')? Calling axes(h) makes my figure visible, which I don't want to happen. I have to recall set(gcf), so no problem, I was just wondering if there is an option to keep it invisible when calling axes(h).