moving difference function in matlab

Hi all, I recorded the skin conductance signal which is n X 2 vector (amplitude, time). In part of signal analysis i have to apply moving-difference function with a difference interval of 50ms.

The signal sampling interval is 100Hz. Hence the interval for difference function includes 5 points.

What i understood is the moving difference function converts every point in my raw signal into the difference between the value of the point and the value of the point located in a given interval before it (50ms).

I am wondering how I can implement this in MATLAB.

Thanks

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

You can use conv(). Like

kernel = [0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 -1];
diffSignal = conv(signal, kernel, 'valid');

[tafteh]

Thanks, my kernel indeed became like this:

kernel = [0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 -1];