In MATLAB, you can control the format of tick labels on the x-axis (or y-axis) by customizing the axis properties.
Figure 1:
If you want to change the tick label format to scientific notation with "1e-06" instead of "10^-6," you can use "sprintf" function to set the desired format.
Please refer to the below link for documentation of “sprintf” function:
Here's how you can do it:
figure (1);
semilogx(x,y1,'Linewidth',1);
legend({'Manoeveur Rate'},'EdgeColor','none')
xlabel('ACPL');
ylabel('Mean number of Avoidance Manoevres');
set(gcf,'color','w');
xticklabels(arrayfun(@changeFig1XLabel, xticks, 'UniformOutput', false));
function n = changeFig1XLabel(label)
if label < 1e-04
n = sprintf('%.0e', label);
else
n = sprintf('%.4g', label);
end
end
The "arrayfun" function is used to format the tick labels as strings in scientific notation with the help of "changeFig1XLabels" which generates the desired string based on the numerical value passed to the function. "xticklabels" is used to customize the tick values and labels.
For more information on “xticklabels”, refer to the following documentation:
Figure 2:
If you want the y-axis ticks to be inline with the one's generated from the code you could use the axis properties of Y-axis to change the exponet value to the desired one and to change the X-Axis labels you can use the "semilogx" function to get the tick labels in powers of 10. By this way your graph can be smoother edges.
For more information on “xticklabels”, refer to the following documentation:
Here's how you can do it:
figure (2);
semilogx(y1,y2,'Linewidth',1);
hold on
semilogx(y1,y4,'Linewidth',1);
hold off
legend({'Risk Reduction','Remaining Risk'},'EdgeColor','none')
% set(gca, 'xlim', [1 1000]);
set(gcf,'color','w');
ax = gca;
ax.YAxis.Exponent = -3;
xticks([1 10 100 1000]);
xticklabels(xticks);
Figure 3:
To achieve the desired plot, you can combine the solutions provided for the above two figures. Here's how you can do it:
figure(3);
semilogx(x,y2,'Marker',".",'Linewidth',1,'color',"r");
hold on
semilogx(x,y3,'Linewidth',1);
hold off
legend({'Risk Reduction','Residual Risk'},'EdgeColor','none')
set(gcf,'color','w');
ax = gca;
ax.YAxis.Exponent = -3;
xticklabels(arrayfun(@changeFig1XLabel, xticks, 'UniformOutput', false));
function n = changeFig1XLabel(label)
if label < 1e-04
n = sprintf('%.0e', label);
else
n = sprintf('%.4g', label);
end
end
With these changes you can achieve your desired output.
I hope this helps.
