I can see several problems here.
First, Matlab likes the lines to be finished with a semicolon, but this isn't necessary if you don't mind your programm outputting all the operations.
Then, you aren't assigning values. You are comparing them. To assign a new value to a variable you only need one equal sign.
Third, you can't use a condition for you else statment, if you only wnt to execute the command below u need to use another elseif.
From your description I suspect the following code does the right thing for you:
x= 5 + randn * 0.5;
if x < 1
x = 1;
elseif x > 10
x = 10;
else
x = 1.3* x -0.75;
end
even though I think it would be better to use a new variable for your result
x= 5 + randn * 0.5;
if x < 1
y = 1;
elseif x > 10
y = 10;
else
y = 1.3* x -0.75;
end
