Help and Documentation

All MATLAB^® functions have supporting documentation that includes examples and describes the function inputs, outputs, and calling syntax. There are several ways to access this information from the command line:

Open the function documentation in a separate window using the doc command.
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doc mean
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Display function hints (the syntax portion of the function documentation) in the Command Window by pausing after you type the open parentheses for the function input arguments.
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View an abbreviated text version of the function documentation in the Command Window using the help command.
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help mean
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Access the complete product documentation by clicking the help icon .

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