Getting an illegal use of reserved keyword 'if', really not sure why

close all

clear all

clc

% First try of method using 1000 random values

% I will increase the number of values until:

% mean(y) = 1.0e+03 * 0.37 and std(y) = 1.0e+03 * 0.047

% Will increase in powers of 10

rng(0,'twister');

a = 47;

b = 370;

no_values = 1000;

y = a.*randn(no_values,1) + b;

stats = [mean(y) std(y) var(y);

if mean(y) ~= 1.0e+03 * 0.370 & std(y) ~= 1.0e+03 * 0.04;

no_values = no_values.*10;

end

Answer 1

[Steven Lord]

stats = [mean(y) std(y) var(y);

You forgot the closing bracket on the previous line of code.