MATLAB: Simple question about plotting a convolution

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I have two sets of data (x,y1) and (x,y2).I need to calculate the convolution between y1 and y2 and plot it vs x. Is it correct to do simply like this?
convol=conv(y1,y2);
plot(x,convol)
I've never used the command conv and I'm not sure about it. Thanks!

Best Answer

Your code will give you a vector of length length(y1)+length(y2)-1, so you'll get an error if you plot it against x (which is presumably the same length as y1 and y2). Instead, use
convol = conv(y1,y2,'same')
which gives you the central part of the convolution of the same size as y1. Then you'll be able to plot it.
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