Hello, I am pretty new to matlab and so not totally efficient and professional at writing codes on it. I have a panel data of a group of countries and the following I am suppose to perform on each country. Is there a way on matlab like defining a variable with names of countries such that it will be able to implement the code on each country?. Also as you notice from the code I am providing can I define another loop for h =1:4 such that I get the output exactly the same way I get when I cut and paste the same code for each country.
I appreciate any feedback and output thank you
Example of my code :
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% cty 1%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%DM11_cty1=[];DM21_cty1=[];for T=1:8%the forcast sample h=1; [e1h, e2h,e3h] = forcasterror(h,T,GVARs,Actual,FRWM,FRWMD); DM1h_cty1=dmtest(e1h,e2h,h);%this is the DM test for h=2 between GVAR and RW DM2h_cty1=dmtest(e1h,e3h,h);%this is the DM test for h=2 between GVAR and RWD DM11_cty1=[DM11_cty1 DM1h_cty1]; DM21_cty1=[DM21_cty1 DM2h_cty1];endDM12_cty1=[];DM22_cty1=[];for T=1:8%the forcast sample h=2; [e1h, e2h,e3h] = forcasterror(h,T,GVARs,Actual,FRWM,FRWMD); DM1h_cty1=dmtest(e1h,e2h,h);%this is the DM test for h=2 between GVAR and RW DM2h_cty1=dmtest(e1h,e3h,h);%this is the DM test for h=2 between GVAR and RWD DM12_cty1=[DM12_cty1 DM1h_cty1]; DM22_cty1=[DM22_cty1 DM2h_cty1];endDM13_cty1=[];DM23_cty1=[];for T=1:8%the forcast sample h=3; [e1h, e2h,e3h] = forcasterror(h,T,GVARs,Actual,FRWM,FRWMD); DM1h_cty1=dmtest(e1h,e2h,h);%this is the DM test for h=2 between GVAR and RW DM2h_cty1=dmtest(e1h,e3h,h);%this is the DM test for h=2 between GVAR and RWD DM13_cty1=[DM13_cty1 DM1h_cty1]; DM23_cty1=[DM23_cty1 DM2h_cty1];endDM14_cty1=[];DM24_cty1=[];for T=1:8%the forcast sample h=4; [e1h, e2h,e3h] = forcasterror(h,T,GVARs,Actual,FRWM,FRWMD); DM1h_cty1=dmtest(e1h,e2h,h);%this is the DM test for h=2 between GVAR and RW DM2h_cty1=dmtest(e1h,e3h,h);%this is the DM test for h=2 between GVAR and RWD DM14_cty1=[DM14_cty1 DM1h_cty1]; DM24_cty1=[DM24_cty1 DM2h_cty1];endDM1_cty1=[DM11_cty1;DM12_cty1;DM13_cty1;DM14_cty1];DM2_cty1=[DM21_cty1;DM22_cty1;DM23_cty1;DM24_cty1];%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%cty2%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%DM11_cty2=[];DM21_cty2=[];for T=1:8%the forcast sample h=1; [e1h, e2h,e3h] = forcasterror(h,T,GVARs,Actual,FRWM,FRWMD); DM1h_cty2=dmtest(e1h,e2h,h);%this is the DM test for h=2 between GVAR and RW DM2h_cty2=dmtest(e1h,e3h,h);%this is the DM test for h=2 between GVAR and RWD DM11_cty2=[DM11_cty2 DM1h_cty2]; DM21_cty2=[DM21_cty2 DM2h_cty2];endDM12_cty2=[];DM22_cty2=[];for T=1:8%the forcast sample h=2; [e1h, e2h,e3h] = forcasterror(h,T,GVARs,Actual,FRWM,FRWMD); DM1h_cty2=dmtest(e1h,e2h,h);%this is the DM test for h=2 between GVAR and RW DM2h_cty2=dmtest(e1h,e3h,h);%this is the DM test for h=2 between GVAR and RWD DM12_cty2=[DM12_cty2 DM1h_cty2]; DM22_cty2=[DM22_cty2 DM2h_cty2];endDM13_cty2=[];DM23_cty2=[];for T=1:8%the forcast sample h=3; [e1h, e2h,e3h] = forcasterror(h,T,GVARs,Actual,FRWM,FRWMD); DM1h_cty2=dmtest(e1h,e2h,h);%this is the DM test for h=2 between GVAR and RW DM2h_cty2=dmtest(e1h,e3h,h);%this is the DM test for h=2 between GVAR and RWD DM13_cty2=[DM13_cty2 DM1h_cty2]; DM23_cty2=[DM23_cty2 DM2h_cty2];endDM14_cty2=[];DM24_cty2=[];for T=1:8%the forcast sample h=4; [e1h, e2h,e3h] = forcasterror(h,T,GVARs,Actual,FRWM,FRWMD); DM1h_cty2=dmtest(e1h,e2h,h);%this is the DM test for h=2 between GVAR and RW DM2h_cty2=dmtest(e1h,e3h,h);%this is the DM test for h=2 between GVAR and RWD DM14_cty2=[DM14_cty2 DM1h_cty2]; DM24_cty2=[DM24_cty2 DM2h_cty2];endDM1_cty2=[DM11_cty2;DM12_cty2;DM13_cty2;DM14_cty2];DM2_cty2=[DM21_cty2;DM22_cty2;DM23_cty2;DM24_cty2];
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