Dear Eric,
The formula for the Magniture Squared Coherence can be found here. Pxx and Pyy are the power spectral densities of the signals x and y. (PSD of Autocorrelation) These two quantities are real and positive. The magnitude of the cross power spectral density is (as any magnitude of complex numbers) also real and positive. Therefore you can from definition not extract a 'complex part of the MSC'.
If you still interested in the background of the mscohere function, you can type in the matlab prompt:
edit mscohere
Then you can find that the mscohere function uses the welch function. Since the function is private type in:
which welch -all
Now you have found the folder where the welch function is defined. The last step is to type in edit('.....link of previous output') and look at 'case 'mscohere'.
Good luck! Christiaan
Kind regards, Christiaan
