Does base MATLAB include ways to smooth plots?

Does the basic student license for MATLAB include a way to plot outputs and smooth these curves, similar to what can be done in Excel?

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

The below links summarize a couple functions that you can use to achieve curve smoothing in the base student version of MATLAB:

smoothdata:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/smoothdata.html

polyfit:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/polyfit.html

In addition, the following documentation page walks through several different approaches to smoothing data in MATLAB:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/data_analysis/data-smoothing-and-outlier-detection.html

Finally, if you wish to check for other functionalities that are available in base MATLAB, you can use the following steps:

1. Navigate to our documentation site:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/

2. Enter a function name or keyword into the search bar.

3. On the left-hand side, under "Refine by Product", click "MATLAB".