What is the best way to implement a tree in matlab?

I want to write an implementation of a (not a binary) tree and and run some algorithms on it. The reason for using the matlab is that the rest of all programs are in matlab and it would be usful for some analysis开发者_运维问答 and plotting. From an initial search in matlab i found that there aren't thing like pointers in matlab. So I'd like to know the best ( in terms on convinience) possible way to do this in matlab ? or any other ways ?

You can do this with MATLAB objects but you must make sure you use handle objects and not value objects because your nodes will contain cross-references to other nodes (i.e. parent, next sibling, first child).

This question is very old but still open. So I would just like to point readers to this implementation in plain MATLAB made by yours truly. Here is a tutorial that walks you through its use.

Matlab is very well suited to handle any kind of graphs (not only trees) represented as adjacency matrix or incidence matrix.

Matrices (representing graphs) can be either dense or sparse, depending on the properties of your graphs.

Last but not least, graph theory and linear algebra are in very fundamental ways related to each other see for example, so Matlab will be able to provide for you a very nice platform to harness such relationships.