Loopless function calls on vector/matrix members in Matlab/Octave

Question

I came into matrix world from loop world (C, etc)

I would like to call a function on each individual member of a vector/matrix, and return the resulting vector/matri

Answer 1

In matlab the '.' prefix on operators is element-wise operation.

Try something like this:

function r = newfun(v)
 r = a.*exp(-(v-b).^2./(2*c^2))
end