MATLAB: Use a cell array in a for loop

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Hi,
I want to be able to loop through data in a nested loop and create an array of values each time I loop round, and store this array in a cell array.
My code is currently:
 nrms_data = zeros(48,67); %empty list 48 rows and  with 67 columns spaces 
 for i =(1:67) %this will circle through all the gathers
   for j = (1:48)%this will cycle through all the traces in the data for the individual gather 
        trace_j = data{i}(:,j); % gives j'th trace of the gather_i
        good_trace = data{17}(:,j); 
        NRMS = nrms(good_trace, trace_j); 
        nrms_data{i}(j)= NRMS;
I thought that this would store the value of NRMS as the j'th column in the cell array nrms_data but the error is
 Cell contents assignment to anon-cell array object.
I'm unsure how else to do this. I want to be able to create an array of nrms values for each ith gather and each jth trace and then have a cell array that is 67 columns long with 48 rows.

Best Answer

Well yes, you declare nrms_data as a matrix of double, not a cell array. In addition, nrms_data{i}(j) access the scalar element at position j in the matrix of cell i, so that's not what you want.
nrms_data = cell(48, 67);
for i = 1:67   
   %...
       nrms_data{i, j} = NRMS;
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