Data Types

• Numeric Types
  Integer and floating-point data
  
• Characters and Strings
  Text in character arrays and string arrays
  
• Dates and Time
  Arrays of date and time values that can be displayed in different formats
  
• Categorical Arrays
  Arrays of qualitative data with values from a finite set of discrete, nonnumeric data
  
• Tables
  Arrays in tabular form whose named columns can have different types
  
• Timetables
  Time-stamped data in tabular form
  
• Structures
  Arrays with named fields that can contain data of varying types and sizes
  
• Cell Arrays
  Arrays that can contain data of varying types and sizes
  
• Function Handles
  Variables that allow you to invoke a function indirectly
  
• Map Containers
  Objects with keys that index to values, where keys need not be integers
  
• Time Series
  Data vectors sampled over time
  
• Data Type Identification
  Determine data type of a variable
  
• Data Type Conversion
  Convert between numeric arrays, strings and character arrays, dates and times, cell arrays, structures, or tables