Thank you for your response. I tried to use that script but regardless of that I keep running into the same error. These are the exact commands I tried:

./run_dke.sh ~/MATLABcomp/v717 dke_parameters.dat

And I tried setting up the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable manually (still using bash) as

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/MATLABcomp/v717/runtime/glnxa64:~/MATLABcomp/v717/bin/glnxa64:~/MATLABcomp/v717/sys/os/glnxa64:~/MATLABcomp/v717/sys/java/jre/glnxa64/jre/lib/amd64/native_threads:~/MATLABcomp/v717/sys/java/jre/glnxa64/jre/lib/amd64/server:~/MATLABcomp/v717/sys/java/jre/glnxa64/jre/lib/amd64
export XAPPLRESDIR=~/MATLABcomp/v717/X11/app-defaults

then

./dke dke_parameters.dat

But in both cases I get:

Diffusional Kurtosis Estimator (DKE) version 2.6.0, November 2014
Error using dke (line 47)
Error: Unexpected MATLAB expression.

MATLAB:m_missing_operator

I don't think there is a problem with the MCR path, or I would simply get a "cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" error, as if I simply misspelled it.